netdev - Re: [PATCH iwl-next 5/7] i40e: Consolidate checks whether given VSI is main

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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 11:17:22 +0100
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, Tony Nguyen
 <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, "open
 list:NETWORKING DRIVERS" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, open list
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-next 5/7] i40e: Consolidate checks whether given VSI
 is main

On Mon, 2024-03-18 at 15:30 +0100, Ivan Vecera wrote:
> In the driver code there are 3 types of checks whether given
> VSI is main or not:
> 1. vsi->type ==/!= I40E_VSI_MAIN
> 2. vsi ==/!= pf->vsi[pf->lan_vsi]
> 3. vsi->seid ==/!= pf->vsi[pf->lan_vsi]->seid
> 
> All of them are equivalent and can be consolidated. Convert cases
> 2 and 3 to case 1.

Minor nit: while at it, what about introducing an helper for such
check?

Reordering the patches you could use it also in i40e_pf_get_main_vsi()

Cheers,

Paolo