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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:04:51 -0700
From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, vburru@...vell.com, sedara@...vell.com,
srasheed@...vell.com, sburla@...vell.com, davem@...emloft.net,
edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: octeon_ep_vf: use ethtool_sprintf/puts
On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 5:43 AM Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 09:47:27PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> > Simplifies the function and avoids manual pointer manipulation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
>
> Thanks,
>
> The code changes look good to me and my local testing shows that it compiles.
> So, from that point of view:
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
>
> But I do have a few points about process, which I hope you will
> give due consideration:
>
> 1. It would be good if the patch description was a bit more verbose.
> And indicated how you found this problem (by inspection?)
> and how it was tested (compile tested only?).
Right. This is just an API change. There should be no actual change in
functionality.
>
> This helps set expectations for reviewers of this patch,
> both now and in the future.
>
> 2. You have posed a number of similar patches.
> To aid review it would be best to group these, say in batches of
> no more than 10.
I plan to do a treewide commit with a coccinelle script but would like
to manually fix the problematic ones before doing so. Having said that
I still need to figure out how to do a cover letter...
>
> F.e. Point 1, above, doesn't just apply to this patch.
>
> 3. Please do review the Networking subsystem process document
>
> https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-netdev.html
>
> ...
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