Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] IB/ocrdma: Improve size determinations in ten functions

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 12:38:58PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 08:54 -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> > On 04/23/2017 03:33 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 04:36:19PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> > > > Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 13:26:49 +0200
> > > >
> > > > Replace the specification of data types by pointer dereferences
> > > > as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the
> > > > corresponding size
> > > > determinations a bit safer according to the Linux coding style
> > > > convention.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > v2:
> > > > Changes were rebased on source files from Linux next-20170421.
> > > > These were recombined as requested by Doug Ledford.
> > >
> > > Hi Doug,
> > >
> > > I recommend you to be extra cautious with this blind automatic
> > > conversions. It requires inspection that every size before and
> > > after
> > > match each other.
> > >
> > > I already asked it and would be like to repeat it. Please DON'T
> > > take any
> > > patches from Markus, which are related to mlx4/mlx5/rxe without our
> > > explicit
> > > review of them.
> >
> > I agree with Leon here, and these sort of find/replace automagic 
> > clean-up patches make me nervous sometimes.
>
> OK, the easiest way to make sure that only the things you want from his
> patches get through is to have you pull them into a branch and submit
> them yourself.  I'll only take the ones you submit to me, that way
> there is no confusion about whether or not you have checked them and
> approved them.

Fine to me.

Thanks

>
> > Markus, what have you done to ensure your patches don't break
> > anything?
> >
> > -Denny
> >
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