netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: enetc: cache accesses to &priv->si->hw

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Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:42:14 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Xiaoliang Yang <xiaoliang.yang_1@....com>,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: enetc: cache accesses to
 &priv->si->hw

On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:43:48 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> The &priv->si->hw construct dereferences 2 pointers and makes lines
> longer than they need to be, in turn making the code harder to read.
> 
> Replace &priv->si->hw accesses with a "hw" variable when there are 2 or
> more accesses within a function that dereference this. This includes
> loops, since &priv->si->hw is a loop invariant.

Could you resend? pw checker could not apply it, it must have depended 
on the fixes from net.