On 09/20/16 at 05:36pm, Herbert Xu wrote: > Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> wrote: > > Split out most of rht_key_hashfn which is calculating the hash into > > its own function. This way the hash function can be called separately to > > get the hash value. > > > > Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tg...@suug.ch> > > Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> > > I don't get this one. You're just using jhash, right? Why not > call jhash directly instead of rht_get_key_hashfn?
FYI, there is a v2 of this series, just so you don't have to do the work twice. I understand this particular patch as an effort not to duplicate hash function selection such as jhash vs jhash2 based on key_len.