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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Subbu Seetharaman <subbus@serverengines.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	sathyap@serverengines.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/12] benet: net_object i/f functions, Makefile
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:01:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080619100151.GA24434@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080619095919.cf02dbe3@mailhost.serverengines.com>

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:59:19AM -0700, Subbu Seetharaman wrote:
> Christoph,
> 
> The primary reason for separating the lower layer
> code from rest of the driver is to share it
> across two drivers for the two functions
> of the device.

Then please look at the various drivers that already do this.  Just
built each module on it's own without strange cross-directory builds.

> The secondary objective of
> keeping this code OS neutral through 
> abstractions has been conceded based
> on the review comments from the last few 
> rounds.

But that's not how the code looks like.  There's still tons and tons
of useless wrappers that just make the code unreadable.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-19 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-19  9:59 [PATCH 3/12] benet: net_object i/f functions, Makefile Subbu Seetharaman
2008-06-19 10:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-19  6:27 Subbu Seetharaman
2008-06-19  9:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-18 16:20 Subbu Seetharaman
2008-06-18 18:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-06-12 10:40 Subbu Seetharaman
2008-06-17 19:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-06-19 10:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-19 10:16 ` Christoph Hellwig

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