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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: #ifdef inet_bind_bucket::ib_net
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:03:42 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081113.150342.26349899.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6fcc0a0811131453l4c111135p7b58453a533693ea@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:53:26 +0300

> Something is wrong with read_pnet() as nobody suggested to mass use it
> or send a patch doing it.
> 
>         #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
>                 ib->ib_net = net;
>         #endif
> 
> It's _obvious_ from this code that it's a C assignment or nop. It's also
> obvious depending on what config option.

obvious, but ugly

>         write_pnet(&ib->ib_net, net);
> 
> What is & operator doing here? Is it important? '&' is syntaxic noise.

'&' is necessary for the assignment.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-13 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-13 22:53 [PATCH v3] net: #ifdef inet_bind_bucket::ib_net Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-13 23:03 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-11-13 23:09 ` Eric Dumazet
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-13 23:21 Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-14  4:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-14  4:40   ` David Miller
2008-11-14  4:54     ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-14  6:14       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-14  6:21         ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-14  6:41           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-11  0:44 [PATCH] net: introduce read_pnet() and write_pnet() functions David Miller
2008-11-11 11:08 ` [PATCH] net: #ifdef inet_bind_bucket::ib_net Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-11 11:19   ` [PATCH v2] " Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-12  0:45     ` David Miller
2008-11-12 10:44       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-12 10:50         ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-12 12:24           ` [PATCH v3] " Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-12 12:24             ` David Miller

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