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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Remove state argument from skb_find_text()
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 01:05:59 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:16:48AM +0100, Bojan Prtvar wrote:
> Although it is clear that textsearch state is intentionally passed
> to skb_find_text() as uninitialized argument, it was never used by
> the callers. Therefore, we can simplify skb_find_text() by making it
> local variable.

This infrastructure was conceived to allow keeping the state between
chunk of data, I don't find a good reason to restrict this.