Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] net: atlantic: fix ring buffer alignment

From: Igor Russkikh
Date: Thu Jun 22 2023 - 01:50:33 EST



Hi Jakub, Arnd,

> On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:10:03 +0200 Simon Horman wrote:
>> Perhaps it just me. But I do have trouble reconciling the description
>> above with the structure below. As such, my suggest would be to simply
>> delete it.
>
> Agreed that the comment is confusing seems to be incorrect post-change.
> Flags for instance are overlapped with len, is_gso etc. so they can't be
> a separate 8B at the end.
>
> Igor, please advise how you want to proceed.

I do agree better to remove the comment at all - it explains almost nothing.

Thats not a hardware related structure, so explicit pack is for sure not required.

Acked-by: Igor Russkikh <irusskikh@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Igor