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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/3] ipv4: rename ip_options_echo to
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:49:23 -0700
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On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 13:38 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 13:30 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > Unrelated:
> > 
> > I wonder how much effort, if any, should be made to convert
> > struct sk_buff * to const struct sk_buff * where appropriate.
> > 
> > For instance:
> > 
> > This __ip_options_echo could use const struct sk_buff *skb
> > if fib_compute_spec_dst was changed to const struct sk_buff *skb.
> 
> Well, this seems something certainly doable, as a follow up ;)

It's doable, but it seems a non-trivial inspection task.

I believe coccinelle does not have the ability to automate this.