netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v7] Add support of Cavium Liquidio ethernet adapters

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Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:22:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Derek.Chickles@...iumnetworks.com
Cc:	Raghu.Vatsavayi@...iumnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Satananda.Burla@...iumnetworks.com,
	Felix.Manlunas@...iumnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7] Add support of Cavium Liquidio ethernet
 adapters

From: "Chickles, Derek" <Derek.Chickles@...iumnetworks.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 17:04:35 +0000

> 
>> >>
>> >> It is extremely disappointing that you've defined your own debug
>> >> logging macros, which use generic dev_*() printks, instead of using
>> >> the proper netdev_*() printk logging interfaces to do this.
>> >
>> > We can make this change. I'm not sure why it was missed since we
>> > have netif_level support. Please note, we will still need to use the
>> > dev_ macros for those places in the driver where we don't have a
>> > netdev yet.
>> 
>> Of course.
>> 
>> But there is no reason to go through a special locally defined
>> macros to do this stuff.  Just invoke dev_* and netdev_* directly.
> 
> I think the main reason we're doing this is because we're passing around
> struct octeon_device (which has a pcI_dev pointer and a netdev pointer)
> through some parts of the code and felt the consistency in the printk
> interface was better than having extra pointer dereferences (like
> &oct->pci_dev->dev) inline in the code.  Do you mind if we keep wrappers
> for those pieces? The other places where netdev is immediately available
> can easily be changed.

I don't think this is reasonable.

You can always get to the octeon_device object from the netdev pointer,
so pass that everywhere.
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