On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:06:50PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Using a struct makes the dynamic case much easier, but it complicates the static case.
>
> Previously we could create the buckets statically.
>
> Consider this struct:
>
> struct hash_table {
> u32 bits;
> struct hlist_head buckets[];
> };
>
> We can't make any code that wraps this to make it work properly
> statically allocated nice enough to be acceptable.
I don't know. Maybe you can create an anonymous outer struct / union
and play symbol trick to alias hash_table to its member. If it is
gimped either way, I'm not sure whether it's really worthwhile to
create the abstraction. It's not like we're saving a lot of
complexity.
Thanks.
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tejun
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