netdev - Re: [PATCH rdma-next V2 20/27] RDMA: Simplify get firmware interface

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2017 10:48:22 -0400
From:   Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Ariel Almog <ariela@...lanox.com>,
        Linux Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next V2 20/27] RDMA: Simplify get firmware interface

On 7/3/2017 2:28 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> 
> There is a need to forward FW version to user space
> application through RDMA netlink. In order to make it safe, there
> is need to declare nla_policy and limit the size of FW string.
> 
> The new define IB_FW_VERSION_NAME_MAX will limit the size of
> FW version string. That define was chosen to be equal to
> ETHTOOL_FWVERS_LEN, because many drivers anyway are limited
> by that value indirectly.
> 
> The introduction of this define allows us to remove the string size
> from get_fw_str function signature.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>

Reviewed-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>