On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is here for correctness and documentation. If the hlist > implementation changed, one would have a hard time figuring out the > callsites which then need to add the initialization back. > I am quite sure there are other users rely on this assumption. So who wants to change the macro INIT_HLIST_HEAD() has to review all the code. It is a huge task, but can't be avoided. For now, calling INIT_HLIST_HEAD() has no benefit, but wastes CPU cycles and increases the image size. Thanks. -- Regards, Changli Gao(xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html