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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kys@microsoft.com
Cc: olaf@aepfle.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable send side checksum offload
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:33:54 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140306.143354.1296864763659469552.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394104390-23477-5-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com>

From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu,  6 Mar 2014 03:13:09 -0800

> +bool get_net_transport_info(struct sk_buff *skb, bool *is_v4,
> +				bool *is_tcp, bool *is_udp, u32 *trans_off)
> +{

Returning so many values like this is awkward, at best.

Why not return a well defined bitmask:

#define TRANSPORT_INFO_SUCCESS	0x00000001
#define TRANSPORT_INFO_TCP	0x00000002
#define TRANSPORT_INFO_UDP	0x00000004

Then the only value you have to return by reference is trans_off.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-06 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-06 11:12 [PATCH 0/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable various offloads K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-03-06 11:13 ` [PATCH 1/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable scatter gather I/O K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-03-06 11:13   ` [PATCH 2/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Cleanup the send path K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-03-06 19:30     ` David Miller
2014-03-06 11:13   ` [PATCH 3/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable offloads on the host K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-03-06 19:31     ` David Miller
2014-03-06 19:36     ` Dan Carpenter
2014-03-06 11:13   ` [PATCH 4/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable receive side IP checksum offload K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-03-06 19:31     ` David Miller
2014-03-06 11:13   ` [PATCH 5/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable send side " K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-03-06 19:33     ` David Miller [this message]
2014-03-06 20:29       ` KY Srinivasan
2014-03-06 20:48         ` David Miller
2014-03-06 21:00           ` KY Srinivasan
2014-03-09 18:53     ` Ben Hutchings
2014-03-06 11:13   ` [PATCH 6/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable large send offload K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-03-06 19:34     ` David Miller
2014-03-06 19:29   ` [PATCH 1/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable scatter gather I/O David Miller
2014-03-06 23:28     ` [PATCH] checkpatch: net and drivers/net: Warn on missing blank line after variable declaration Joe Perches
2014-03-06 23:35       ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-06 23:42         ` Joe Perches
2014-03-06 23:55           ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-07  0:11             ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Always warn on missing blank line after variable declaration block Joe Perches
2014-03-07  7:54       ` [PATCH] checkpatch: net and drivers/net: Warn on missing blank line after variable declaration Dan Carpenter
2014-03-07  9:30         ` Joe Perches
2014-03-10 16:02           ` Treewide frequency of various checkpatch messages Joe Perches
2014-03-10 16:50             ` Greg KH
2014-03-10 18:48               ` Joe Perches
2014-03-10 19:33                 ` Greg KH
2014-03-10 20:11                   ` Joe Perches

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