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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>,
       Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.4.19] fix for fuzzy hash <linux/ghash.h> [Attempt 2]
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:17:25 +0200
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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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