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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: idr_get_new_exact ?
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:26:47 +0200
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Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Jean Delvare \(PC drivers\, core\)" <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	"Ben Dooks (embedded platforms)" <ben-linux@fluff.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>,
	Steve Wise <swise@chelsio.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
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Hello,

On 09/20/2010 10:35 PM, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Looks fine to me as an improvement over the status quo, but I wonder how
> many of these places could use the radix_tree stuff instead?  If you're
> not using the ability of the idr code to assign an id for you, then it
> seems the radix_tree API is a better fit.

I agree.  Wouldn't those users better off simply using radix tree?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun