linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/6] Cleanup mlx5

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Date:   Thu, 2 Jul 2020 16:11:52 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, Maor Gottlieb <maorg@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/6] Cleanup mlx5_ib main file

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 10:08:09AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 11:18:03AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> >
> > Over the years, the main.c file grew above all imagination and was >8K
> > LOC of the code. This caused to a huge burden while I started to work on
> > ib_flow allocation patches.
> >
> > This series implements long standing "internal" wish to move flow logic
> > from the main to separate file.
> >
> > Based on
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20200630101855.368895-4-leon@kernel.org
>
> Isn't this the series you said to drop? Can this be applied
> independently?

I asked to drop one patch in question, the one that revealed issue with
reference counting and convoluted error unwind flow.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200630145926.GA4837@unreal

It probably can be applied independently, but I didn't try.

Thanks

>
> Jason