Re: [PATCH] dev: use name hash for dev_seq_ops.

On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 22:55 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

If ifindex has been deleted, the code should fall back to delivering
the next offset. That means for the rare case it would have the old
behavior of linear searching.  There is similar code already to
deal with /proc/net/route; it continues from the last address.

We rewrote the patch to use the ifindex. Since we are at the beginning,
the patch was sent in another thread. We'll learn how to properly send
the mail.

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Thanks,
Mihai