Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:11:41 +1000 | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19 fix for fuzzy hash <linux/ghash.h> |
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:02:32 -0400 Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> wrote:
> The DEF_HASH_FUZZY macro allows the user to template their hash; it > takes on a paramter for the hashing-function, namely HASHFN. When used > with a hashing-function named anything other than 'hashfn()', a module > using the kernel's fuzzy hash implementation will not compile. > > None of the in-kernel 2.4.x drivers use this primitive (yet) so it's no > wonder no one has spotted it. The patch is very trivial and makes me > think that I am the very first user of the include/linux/ghash.h > hash-table primitive. ;)
That's why I was going to submit a patch to turf it out in 2.5. 2.5's include/hash.h provides a hashing function: did you really want ghash.h?
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