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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x_tables: Factor out 16bit aligment ifname_compare()
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 13:14:13 -0800
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On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 22:02 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 11.01.2015 um 21:59 schrieb Joe Perches:
> > On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 21:52 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> >> arp_tables.c has a 16bit aligment ifname_compare(), factor
> >> it out to use it for all tables.
[]
> > Perhaps this would be better as bool ifname_compare
> Let's discuss the whole concept first

The concept seems obvious enough