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From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, socketcan-core@lists.berlios.de,
	haas@ems-wuensche.com, anantgole@ti.com, mkl@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] can: provide library functions for skb allocation
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:46:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ADB6279.3000403@grandegger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091017.235520.265660027.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:22:18 +0200
> 
>> +	skb->protocol = __constant_htons(ETH_P_CAN);
> 
> Please don't use __constant_htonX() for runtime invocatios.
> It's only for situation which must be compile time evaluations
> such as case statements and static initializations.
> 
> GCC can figure out that's it's constant if you just use
> plan htonX().

OK, I just dent out v2 of this patch.

Wolfgang.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-18 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-15  9:22 [PATCH] can: provide library functions for skb allocation Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-10-18  6:55 ` David Miller
2009-10-18 18:46   ` Wolfgang Grandegger [this message]

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