From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] inet_diag: pass inet_diag module to netlink_dump_start Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:07:14 -0700 Message-ID: <20120926090714.618a4b39@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <1348635140-20225-1-git-send-email-gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> <1348635140-20225-2-git-send-email-gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, pablo@netfilter.org, steffen.klassert@secunet.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, jengelh@inai.de, stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com To: Gao feng Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1348635140-20225-2-git-send-email-gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:52:11 +0800 Gao feng wrote: > struct netlink_dump_control c = { > .dump = inet_diag_dump_compat, > + .done = netlink_dump_done, > + .module = THIS_MODULE, > }; Since these are immutable, why the netlink_dump_control structures on the stack (which requires code to generate at runtime), and instead make them global static const struct netlink_dump_control unix_diag_ctrl = { ...