RE: [PATCH V2 net-next 2/8] net: hns3: Add support of the HNAE3 framework

From: Salil Mehta
Date: Sat Jul 22 2017 - 19:31:28 EST




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> From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@xxxxxxx]
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> To: Salil Mehta
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 2/8] net: hns3: Add support of the
> HNAE3 framework
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:10:29AM +0100, Salil Mehta wrote:
> > This patch adds the support of the HNAE3 (Hisilicon Network
> > Acceleration Engine 3) framework support to the HNS3 driver.
> >
> > Framework facilitates clients like ENET(HNS3 Ethernet Driver), RoCE
> > and user-space Ethernet drivers (like ODP etc.) to register with
> HNAE3
> > devices and their associated operations.
>
> checkpatch throws out one warning in this file
>
> CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written "pos"
> #3508: FILE:
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hns3_enet.h:572:
> + for (pos = (head).ring; pos != NULL; pos = pos->next)
>
> This one seems valid. Not all checkpatch warnings are.
Agreed and fixed in V4 patch.

Thanks
Salil
>
> Andrew