On 7/18/07, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Denis Cheng <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:41:03 +0800
> Because this function is only called by unregister_netdevice,
> this moving could make this non-global function static,
> and also remove its declaration in netdevice.h;
>
> Any further, function __dev_addr_discard is also just called by
> dev_mc_discard and dev_unicast_discard, keeping this two functions
> both in one c file could make __dev_addr_discard also static
> and remove its declaration in netdevice.h;
>
> Futhermore, the sequential call to dev_unicast_discard and then
> dev_mc_discard in unregister_netdevice have a similar mechanism that:
> (netif_tx_lock_bh / __dev_addr_discard / netif_tx_unlock_bh),
> they should merged into one to eliminate duplicates in acquiring and
> releasing the dev->_xmit_lock, this would be done in my following patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[email protected]>
Patch applied, thanks.
Thanks for applying, too.
And then the dev_mcast.c is now only 256 lines long(versus dev.c 4052 lines),
just left a few multicast related functions definition and "dev_mcast"
procfs code,
I have an idea to merge all code dev_mcast.c into dev.c, that would:
- remove two functions (__dev_addr_delete, __dev_set_rx_mode) from netdevice.h,
and then tag them static,
those two are also defined in dev.c and only called from dev_mcast.c,
- reducing one file would benefit the compilation process.
All in one word, I don't think the single file dev_mcast.c is needed anymore.
--
Denis Cheng
Linux Application Developer
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.
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