From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH REPOST v4 5/7] ixgbevf: keep writel() closer to wmb() Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:54:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20180321.175427.1419929873765406157.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1521658572-26354-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> <1521658572-26354-6-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> <1521668888.12746.32.camel@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: okaya@codeaurora.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, timur@codeaurora.org, sulrich@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1521668888.12746.32.camel@intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:48:08 -0700 > On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 14:56 -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote: >> Remove ixgbevf_write_tail() in favor of moving writel() close to >> wmb(). >> >> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya >> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck >> --- >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h | 5 ----- >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 4 ++-- >> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > This patch fails to compile because there is a call to > ixgbevf_write_tail() which you missed cleaning up. For a change with delicate side effects, it doesn't create much confidence if the code does not even compile. Sinan, please put more care into the changes you are making. Thank you.