linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] hinic: add generating mailbox random index support

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Date:   Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:03:03 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Luo bin <luobin9@...wei.com>
Cc:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <luoxianjun@...wei.com>,
        <yin.yinshi@...wei.com>, <cloud.wangxiaoyun@...wei.com>,
        <chiqijun@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] hinic: add generating mailbox random index
 support

On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:59:19 +0800 Luo bin wrote:
> add support to generate mailbox random id for VF to ensure that
> the mailbox message from VF is valid and PF should check whether
> the cmd from VF is supported before passing it to hw.

This is hard to review. I don't see how the addition of
hinic_mbox_check_cmd_valid() correlates to the random id 
thing. Please split this into two or more patches making
one logical change each.