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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next] rocker: remove rocker parameter from
 functions that have rocker_port parameter
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 08:15:42 +0200
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Thu, May 28, 2015 at 05:23:17AM CEST, simon.horman@netronome.com wrote:
>The rocker (switch) of a rocker_port may be trivially obtained from
>the latter it seems cleaner not to pass the former to a function when
>the latter is being passed anyway.

I don't understand reason for this patch. I like it the way it is I must
say. + you introduce possible multiple dereference in a row in call-chain.