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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 1/5] team: add support for per-port options
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:33:56 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:15:42 +0200

> @@ -81,7 +81,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(team_port_set_team_mac);
>   * Options handling
>   *******************/
>  
> -struct team_option *__team_find_option(struct team *team, const char *opt_name)
> +struct team_option_inst { /* One for each option instance */
> +	struct list_head list;
> +	struct team_option *option;
> +	struct team_port *port; /* != NULL if per-port */
> +	bool changed;
> +	bool removed;
> +};
> +

All this indirection... just simply embed struct team_option into
struct team_option_inst instead of using a pointer, and allocate a
full team_option_inst where you currently memdup in the options.