linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 06/10] net: introduce a net_device

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Date:   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:05:48 +0100
From:   Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>
To:     Igor Russkikh <Igor.Russkikh@...antia.com>
Cc:     Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 06/10] net: introduce a net_device_ops macsec
 helper

Hi Igor,

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 02:58:45PM +0000, Igor Russkikh wrote:
> 
> Its great to see macsec hw offload infrastructure happening!
> 
> > @@ -1441,6 +1445,10 @@ struct net_device_ops {
> >  						u32 flags);
> >  	int			(*ndo_xsk_async_xmit)(struct net_device *dev,
> >  						      u32 queue_id);
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MACSEC
> > +	int			(*ndo_macsec)(struct net_device *dev,
> > +					      struct netdev_macsec *macsec);
> > +#endif
> >  };
> 
> Most of ndo's are named by action verbs. This ndo is abit misleading, reader
> may have difficulties understanding what
> 
> +	if (phydev->drv->macsec)
> +		ret = phydev->drv->macsec(phydev, macsec);
> 
> is actually doing.
> 
> May be it'd be better renaming to at least ndo_do_macsec(), or ndo_setup_macsec()
> ?
> 
> Similar comment is for
> 
> +struct netdev_macsec {
> 
> It reads like a macsec device context, but it is a macsec configuration command.

OK, I'll rename the functions so that they contain a verb.

Thanks!
Antoine

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Antoine Ténart, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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