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Subject: Re: [patch net-next repost 1/3] idr: Use unsigned long instead of
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 03:58:53 -0700
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On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 12:53 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:

> rhashtable is unnecesary big hammer for this. IDR is nice fit for
> this purpose.

Obviously IDR does not fit, since you have to change its ABI.

If rhashtable does not fit this, then I wonder why we spent so many days
of work adding it in the kernel.