linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] net/mlx5e: Remove redundant assignment

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Date:   Tue, 5 Mar 2019 22:21:39 +0000
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
To:     Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>, "leon@...nel.org" <leon@...nel.org>
CC:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "gustavo@...eddedor.com" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Eli Britstein <elibr@...lanox.com>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] net/mlx5e: Remove redundant assignment

On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 08:26 +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 03:20:57PM +0000, Roi Dayan wrote:
> > 
> > On 02/03/2019 21:39, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > > Remove redundant assignment to tun_entropy->enabled.
> > > 
> > > Addesses-Coverity-ID: 1477328 ("Unused value")
> > > Fixes: 97417f6182f8 ("net/mlx5e: Fix GRE key by controlling port
> > > tunnel entropy calculation")
> > 
> > the commit doesn't fix any real issue but is more of a cleanup.
> > so I'm not sure if fixes line is relevant or not.
> > beside that looks ok.
> 
> It doesn't matter if it is real issue or not, the code is wrong and
> should be fixed. This alone is enough to see the Fixes line.
> 
> Thanks,
> Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>

Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Dave, Do you think such patch should go to net, or do you want me to
send it in my next pull request to net-next, once it is open of course
?