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Message-ID: <3b08e1d0-62be-4fae-9dbb-9161992ee067@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 11:13:21 +0200
From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
	<edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Kees Cook
	<keescook@...omium.org>, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
	"Simon Horman" <horms@...nel.org>,
	<nex.sw.ncis.osdt.itp.upstreaming@...el.com>,
	<linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netdevice: define and allocate &net_device
 _properly_

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 11:10:35 -0700

> On Tue,  7 May 2024 14:39:37 +0200 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>> There are several instances of the structure embedded into other
>> structures, but also there's ongoing effort to remove them and we
>> could in the meantime declare &net_device properly.
> 
> Is there a reason you're reposting this before that effort is completed?

To speed up the conversion probably :D

> The warnings this adds come from sparse and you think they should be
> ignored?

For now...

> 
> TBH since Breno is doing the heavy lifting of changing the embedders 
> it'd seem more fair to me if he got to send this at the end. Or at
> least, you know, got a mention or a CC.

I was lazy enough to add tags, sorry. The idea of him sending this at
the end sounds reasonable.

Thanks,
Olek

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