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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V3] net: af_packet: Untangle packet_snd by adding vpacket_snd
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 07:11:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305263462.2831.11.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b174c9df4b7c39b4e951f1f309a4fd9086179c3c.1305242549.git.joe@perches.com>

Le jeudi 12 mai 2011 à 16:25 -0700, Joe Perches a écrit :
> The current packet_snd handles both vlan and non-vlan frames
> with initialization of a struct virtio_net_hdr that is unused
> by non-vlan frames.
> 
> Create a new vpacket_snd that uses this virtio_net_hdr and
> remove it and the vlan and gso logic from packet_snd.
> 

1) I find this kind of patches a real pain, frankly.

When I have to look around code and commits to find bugs and bugs
origins, I'll have to fully check this kind of patch, and this slow down
the process a _lot_, because I have no idea if "Joe Perches" actually
tested the patch, or if its yet another "code beautifier" process in the
wild.

You should have shooted when/before commit bfd5f4a3 (packet: Add
GSO/csum offload support) was accepted.

2) You did not CCed Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>, the author of
above commit. I dont think David will take the time to test your patch.

3) You add some non codingstyle artifacts. I am afraid it makes me
nervous for patches bringing no real values but shuffling the code and
making maintainers life more difficult.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-13  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-12 20:36 [PATCH] net: af_packet: Don't initialize vnet_hdr Joe Perches
2011-05-12 21:26 ` David Miller
2011-05-12 21:33   ` Joe Perches
2011-05-12 21:36     ` David Miller
2011-05-12 21:55       ` Joe Perches
2011-05-12 21:59         ` David Miller
2011-05-12 23:25           ` [PATCH net-next V3] net: af_packet: Untangle packet_snd by adding vpacket_snd Joe Perches
2011-05-13  5:11             ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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