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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rhashtable: Introduce rhashtable_walk_*
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:26:31 +0000
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Cc: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>, davem@davemloft.net,
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On 01/28/15 at 10:20am, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Some existing rhashtable users get too intimate with it by walking
> the buckets directly.  This prevents us from easily changing the
> internals of rhashtable.
> 
> This patch adds the helpers rhashtable_walk_init/next/end which
> will replace these custom walkers.
> 
> They are meant to be usable for both procfs seq_file walks as well
> as walking by a netlink dump.  The iterator structure should fit
> inside a netlink dump cb structure, with at least one element to
> spare.
>   
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>