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* sock_valbool_flag is required by VMware
@ 2007-11-30 21:52 Jiri Slaby
  2007-12-02 13:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jiri Slaby @ 2007-11-30 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pavel Emelyanov; +Cc: David S. Miller, netdev

Hi,

this commit:
    [NET]: Move sock_valbool_flag to socket.c

    The sock_valbool_flag() helper is used in setsockopt to
    set or reset some flag on the sock. This helper is required
    in the net/socket.c only, so move it there.

    Besides, patch two places in sys_setsockopt() that repeat
    this helper functionality manually.

    Since this is not a bugfix, but a trivial cleanup, I
    prepared this patch against net-2.6.25, but it also
    applies (with a single offset) to the latest net-2.6.

breaks vmware module compilation, since it uses sock_valbool_flag(). Is this
their business (and they should use sock_set_flag/sock_reset_flag) or should
this be reverted?

thanks,
-- 
Jiri Slaby (jirislaby@gmail.com)
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University

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* Re: sock_valbool_flag is required by VMware
  2007-11-30 21:52 sock_valbool_flag is required by VMware Jiri Slaby
@ 2007-12-02 13:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2007-12-02 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jiri Slaby; +Cc: Pavel Emelyanov, David S. Miller, netdev

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:52:22PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this commit:
>     [NET]: Move sock_valbool_flag to socket.c
> 
>     The sock_valbool_flag() helper is used in setsockopt to
>     set or reset some flag on the sock. This helper is required
>     in the net/socket.c only, so move it there.
> 
>     Besides, patch two places in sys_setsockopt() that repeat
>     this helper functionality manually.
> 
>     Since this is not a bugfix, but a trivial cleanup, I
>     prepared this patch against net-2.6.25, but it also
>     applies (with a single offset) to the latest net-2.6.
> 
> breaks vmware module compilation, since it uses sock_valbool_flag(). Is this
> their business (and they should use sock_set_flag/sock_reset_flag) or should
> this be reverted?

It's their business, they should never have used it.


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