From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/16] virtio_net: drop config_enable Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:02:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20141006.150238.2180269239953265506.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1412525038-15871-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <1412525038-15871-9-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org To: mst@redhat.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1412525038-15871-9-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 19:07:13 +0300 > Now that virtio core ensures config changes don't arrive during probing, > drop config_enable flag in virtio net. > On removal, flush is now sufficient to guarantee that no change work is > queued. > > This help simplify the driver, and will allow setting DRIVER_OK earlier > without losing config change notifications. > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin It's hard for people on the networking side to review these changes since you haven't CC:'d them on any of the postings necessary to understand the context of the net/ and drivers/net/ changes. Please at a minimum CC: everyone on your header [PATCH 0/N] posting so we know at least at a high level what is going on, and why. Thanks.