Re: [PATCH] [2.4.19] fix for fuzzy hash <linux/ghash.h> [Attempt 2]

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@arcor.de)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 14:17:25 EST


On Monday 07 October 2002 07:22, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:01:24PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski escreveu:
> > 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. ;)
>
> Somebody told me that this was used in when dentry was introduced to the
> kernel, but then after rewrites it stopped being used, I was even thinking
> about submitting a patch removing it from the tree, but now there is one user,
> you :-)

Too bad, should have acted faster ;-)

This attempt is much like the single linked lists: it looks like something you
ought to be able to generalize, but somehow it never quite works. Writing
the code out in full gives you a more efficient, more compact result every
time.

-- 
Daniel
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