Re: [PATCH 1/6] rhashtable: improve documentation for rhashtable_walk_peek()

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Mar 27 2018 - 11:47:06 EST


From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:33:04 +1100

> The documentation for rhashtable_walk_peek() wrong. It claims to
> return the *next* entry, whereas it in fact returns the *previous*
> entry.
> However if no entries have yet been returned - or if the iterator
> was reset due to a resize event, then rhashtable_walk_peek()
> *does* return the next entry, but also advances the iterator.
>
> I suspect that this interface should be discarded and the one user
> should be changed to not require it. Possibly this patch should be
> seen as a first step in that conversation.
>
> This patch mostly corrects the documentation, but does make a
> small code change so that the documentation can be correct without
> listing too many special cases. I don't think the one user will
> be affected by the code change.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>

Please mention the "one user" explicitly in both locations where
you refer to it in this commit message.

Thank you.