linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/5] hv_netvsc: cleanup after untangling the pointer mess

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Message-Id: <20160605.231750.966943160183728574.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 05 Jun 2016 23:17:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vkuznets@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kys@...rosoft.com,
	haiyangz@...rosoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/5] hv_netvsc: cleanup after untangling
 the pointer mess

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Date: Fri,  3 Jun 2016 17:50:57 +0200

> Changes since v1:
> - resend when net-next is open [David Miller]
> - rebased to current net-next.
> 
> 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.

Series applied, thanks.