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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux X25 <linux-x25@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC v4] net: hdlc_x25: Queue outgoing LAPB frames
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 08:39:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YDIAIwLVQK0P4EQW@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJht_EOru3pW6AHN4QVjiaERpLSfg-0G0ZEaqU_hkhX1acv0HQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 12:28:12PM -0800, Xie He wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:39 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Not entirely sure what the argument is about but adding constants would
> > certainly help.
>
> Leon wants me to replace this:
>
> dev->needed_headroom = 3 - 1;
>
> with this:
>

Leon wants this line to be written good enough:

> /* 2 is the result of 3 - 1 */

And this line like you wrote here:

> dev->needed_headroom = 2;


<...>

> Yes, this patch will break backward compatibility. Users with old
> scripts will find them no longer working.

Did you search in debian/fedora code repositories to see if such scripts exist
as part of any distro package?

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-21  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-16 20:18 [PATCH net-next RFC v4] net: hdlc_x25: Queue outgoing LAPB frames Xie He
2021-02-18  8:57 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-02-18  9:07   ` Xie He
2021-02-18 10:37     ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-02-18 17:36       ` Xie He
2021-02-18 19:55         ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-02-18 20:06           ` Xie He
2021-02-18 20:23             ` Xie He
2021-02-19 18:39               ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-19 20:28                 ` Xie He
2021-02-21  6:39                   ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2021-02-21 19:13                     ` Xie He
2021-02-22  7:14                   ` Martin Schiller
2021-02-22  8:56                     ` Xie He
2021-02-26 14:20                       ` Martin Schiller
2021-02-26 23:03                         ` Xie He
2021-03-01  6:56                           ` Martin Schiller
2021-03-01  8:56                             ` Xie He
2021-03-02  7:04                               ` Martin Schiller
2021-03-02 23:30                                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-03-03 13:26                                   ` Martin Schiller
2021-03-03 20:23                                     ` Xie He

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