linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] hv_netvsc: cleanup after untangling the pointer mess

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Message-Id: <20160523.151323.522872084486431802.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 23 May 2016 15:13:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vkuznets@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, haiyangz@...rosoft.com,
	kys@...rosoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] hv_netvsc: cleanup after untangling the
 pointer mess

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 17:50:33 +0200

> After we made traveling through our internal structures explicit it became
> obvious that some functions take arguments they don't need just to do
> redundant pointer travel and get to what they really need while their
> callers already have the required information.
> 
> This is just a cleanup series with no functional changes intended. It
> doesn't pretend to be complete, additional cleanup of other functions may
> follow.

Cleanups and new features should not be submitted at this time since the
net-next tree is closed.