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From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
To: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-can@vger.kernel.org,
	Reuben.Dowle@navico.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] clean up tx_bytes accounting
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:27:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB2A4DA.6040800@hartkopp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB27026.90301@pengutronix.de>

On 03.11.2011 11:42, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:

> On 11/03/2011 11:03 AM, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:47:53AM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> what about turning can_get_echo_skb() into a helper function which returns the number
>>> of tx'ed bytes.
>> That would work.
>>
>> Next step would be to do the statistics inside can_get_echo_skb(), but that's
>> affecting all drivers using it ...
>> Kurt
> 
> Interesting idea


Yes, but then the name of the function is not appropriate anymore.

The return value for can_get_echo_skb() gives a silent improvement that can be
adopted by CAN drivers by the time. But hiding more functionality inside this
function may lead to misunderstandings.

Regards,
Oliver

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-03 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-31 22:18 [PATCH] flexcan: Fix CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS and CAN_RAW_LOOPBACK Reuben Dowle
2011-10-31 22:31 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-10-31 22:43   ` Reuben Dowle
2011-10-31 22:49     ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-11-02  0:25   ` Reuben Dowle
2011-11-02  8:04 ` Kurt Van Dijck
2011-11-02 19:46   ` Reuben Dowle
2011-11-02 20:30     ` Oliver Hartkopp
2011-11-02 21:31       ` Reuben Dowle
2011-11-03  9:47         ` [PATCH 0/2] clean up tx_bytes accounting Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-11-03  9:47           ` [PATCH 1/2] can: dev: let can_get_echo_skb() return dlc of CAN frame Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-11-03  9:47           ` [PATCH 2/2] flexcan: Fix CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS and CAN_RAW_LOOPBACK Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-11-03  9:59             ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-11-03 10:03             ` Oliver Hartkopp
2011-11-03 10:17               ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-11-03 10:03           ` [PATCH 0/2] clean up tx_bytes accounting Kurt Van Dijck
2011-11-03 10:42             ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-11-03 14:27               ` Oliver Hartkopp [this message]
2011-11-03 14:37                 ` Kurt Van Dijck
2011-11-03 15:03                   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-11-03 14:54         ` [PATCH] flexcan: Fix CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS and CAN_RAW_LOOPBACK Oliver Hartkopp

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