Re: [PATCH ghak25 v2 1/9] netfilter: normalize x_table function declarations

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On 2020-01-30 22:17, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:54 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Git context diffs were being produced with unhelpful declaration types
> > in the place of function names to help identify the funciton in which
>                                                       ^^^^^^^^
>                                                       function
> > changes were made.
> >
> > Normalize x_table function declarations so that git context diff
> > function labels work as expected.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> Considering that this patch is a style change in code outside of
> audit, and we want to merge this via the audit tree, I think it is
> best if you drop the style changes from this patchset.  You can always
> submit them later to the netfilter developers.

Fair enough.  They were intended to help make the audit patches cleaner
by giving proper function name context in the diff, but I'll address the
issues and re-submit via netfilter-devel.

> paul moore

- RGB

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