Re: [PATCH] dev: use name hash for dev_seq_ops.

From: Mihai Maruseac
Date: Wed Oct 12 2011 - 06:08:43 EST


On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 22:55 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> If ifindex has been deleted, the code should fall back to delivering
> the next offset. That means for the rare case it would have the old
> behavior of linear searching. There is similar code already to
> deal with /proc/net/route; it continues from the last address.

We rewrote the patch to use the ifindex. Since we are at the beginning,
the patch was sent in another thread. We'll learn how to properly send
the mail.

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Thanks,
Mihai

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