Re: [PATCH 5/5] AFS: Adjust the new netdevice scanning code

From: David Howells <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 10:53:36 +0100

> Adjust the new netdevice scanning code provided by Patrick McHardy:
> 
>  (1) Restore the function banner comments that were dropped.
> 
>  (2) Rather than using an array size of 6 in some places and an array size of
>      ETH_ALEN in others, pass a pointer instead and pass the array size
>      through so that we can actually check it.
> 
>  (3) Do the buffer fill count check before checking the for_primary_ifa
>      condition again.  This permits us to skip that check should maxbufs be
>      reached before we run out of interfaces.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.
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