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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: m-karicheri2@ti.com
Cc: grygorii.strashko@ti.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	fcooper@ti.com, nsekhar@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	w-kwok2@ti.com, mugunthanvnm@ti.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ti: netcp: restore get/set_pad_info() functionality
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:08:01 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160218.150801.1433459291829189521.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56C5FBA6.3040204@ti.com>

From: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:13:10 -0500

> On 02/16/2016 03:24 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> 
>> I would like some of the feedback to be taken into consideration and
>> integrated into this patch.
>> 
>> Part of the reason this regression was introduced was probably because
>> the purpose of some fields or descriptor semantics was not defined
>> properly.
>> 
>> Therefore it is absolutely appropriate to properly name and document
>> these fields as part of the bug fix.
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
> David,
> 
> I will take over this from Grygorii as he is out of office. 
> 
> I propose to keep this patch as is and add additional patch to address
> the feedback in the same series (v1). Is that fine with you?

No, I want the code to be clarified along with the bug fix so that
this bug is unlikely to resurface.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-18 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-09 13:58 [PATCH] net: ti: netcp: restore get/set_pad_info() functionality Grygorii Strashko
2016-02-09 14:13 ` David Laight
2016-02-09 16:09   ` Karicheri, Muralidharan
2016-02-09 16:10     ` David Laight
2016-02-09 16:19       ` Karicheri, Muralidharan
2016-02-09 16:37         ` David Laight
2016-02-09 16:55           ` Karicheri, Muralidharan
2016-02-09 19:38             ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-10  8:33               ` Grygorii Strashko
2016-02-17 16:19               ` Murali Karicheri
2016-02-18 17:02               ` Murali Karicheri
2016-02-16 20:24 ` David Miller
2016-02-18 17:13   ` Murali Karicheri
2016-02-18 20:08     ` David Miller [this message]

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