On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 7:54 AM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > And I also didn't find the boolean logic hard to understand at all. > > It is in fact a very common pattern to pass a "create" boolean into > lookup functions, to tell them whether to create a new object on > lookup failure or not. And then also to control that boolean via > what kind of netlink request we are processing.
+10 It is a widely used pattern among the kernel source code. I'd be surprised if an experienced kernel developer is not aware of this pattern. ;)
