From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19 fix for fuzzy hash <linux/ghash.h>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:11:41 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020918131141.1938a4d8.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020911140232.R32387@jukie.net>
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:02:32 -0400
Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> wrote:
> The DEF_HASH_FUZZY macro allows the user to template their hash; it
> takes on a paramter for the hashing-function, namely HASHFN. When used
> with a hashing-function named anything other than 'hashfn()', a module
> using the kernel's fuzzy hash implementation will not compile.
>
> None of the in-kernel 2.4.x drivers use this primitive (yet) so it's no
> wonder no one has spotted it. The patch is very trivial and makes me
> think that I am the very first user of the include/linux/ghash.h
> hash-table primitive. ;)
That's why I was going to submit a patch to turf it out in 2.5.
2.5's include/hash.h provides a hashing function: did you really want ghash.h?
Cheers,
Rusty.
--
there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too
many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy
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2002-09-11 18:02 Bart Trojanowski
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