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From: "Simmons, James A." <simmonsja@ornl.gov>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 13/40] staging: lustre: Dynamic LNet Configuration (DLC)
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>On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 06:14:19PM +0000, Simmons, James A. wrote:
>>   
>> >>  struct libcfs_ioctl_hdr {
>> >>  	__u32 ioc_len;
>> >> @@ -87,6 +88,13 @@ do {						    \
>> >>  	data.ioc_hdr.ioc_len = sizeof(data);			\
>> >>  } while (0)
>> >>  
>> >> +#define LIBCFS_IOC_INIT_V2(data, hdr)			\
>> >> +do {							\
>> >> +	memset(&(data), 0, sizeof(data));		\
>> >> +	(data).hdr.ioc_version = LIBCFS_IOCTL_VERSION2;	\
>> >> +	(data).hdr.ioc_len = sizeof(data);		\
>> >> +} while (0)
>> >> +
>> >
>> >Do we really need this?
>> 
>> Would you be okay if this was a inline function? This is used by user land and kernel space code.
>> 
>
>I try (not very hard) to sound like a broken record but this business of
>sharing code with userland is a pain in the butt.  It's not used in the
>kernel or in any patches you have sent.
>
>It would look better as an inline function though so I wouldn't have
>even noticed it.

I'm glad you noticed.  I just looked at the production source code and yep it is only used
in the userland tools code. I need to update our tools so they don't break. Then we can
remove these macros.