netdev - Re: bcmgenet's custom ->ndo_select

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Date:	Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:37:08 -0800
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bcmgenet's custom ->ndo_select_queue()

2014-02-24 16:32 GMT-08:00 David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:
>
> While fixing a build warning:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c:2293:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
>
> I see that bcmgenet's implementation is:
>
>         return netif_is_multiqueue(dev) ? skb->queue_mapping : 0;
>
> That makes no sense at all.
>
> You should only define an overriding function here if you want to do
> something uniqueue, and not use the default.
>
> If you don't assign the queue mapping, it's not even going to be
> set when your select_queue method is called.  In _FACT_ that's the
> reason it is called, to get the queue mapping set.
>
> I'm just deleting this completely, I hope you don't mind.

Not at all, this was in the downstream driver but it definitively
looks suspicious. Thanks!
-- 
Florian
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