netdev - Re: [net-next v2 03/14] i40e: Add PF reset when Malicious driver event for PF

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:35:15 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, Neerav Parikh <neerav.parikh@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next v2 03/14] i40e: Add PF reset when Malicious driver
 event for PF

On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 19:16 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 18:26 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > From: Neerav Parikh <neerav.parikh@...el.com>
> > 
> > As per the spec when the PF driver receives a Malicious driver event
> > the queue that caused the event is already stopped and it is expected
> > that the function that owns the queue will reset the queue.
> > In some cases it may not be possible to determine the queue and it is
> > suggested to reset the whole function.
> > 
> > This patch takes the later approach when the event is owned by the PF
> > that owns it.
> > 
> > Change-ID: I40f9764a6a5e068c0ef8438db00c5aa9c2c6c1c8
> > Signed-off-by: Neerav Parikh <neerav.parikh@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> > ---
> > v2: added punctuation to print statements and code comment
> 
> Comments are good, but I'd suggest removing trailing
> periods from messages as close to 95% of the messages
> in this driver do not use them.
> 
> $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -oh '.\\n"' drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/| \
>   sed 's/[^\.]\\n/X\\n/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
>     621 X\n"
>      41 .\n"
> 
> 

Just to note, the punctuation that was added was a comma and not a
trailing period.  I know that we have tried to clean up the trailing
periods, I will see about going through the driver and put together a
cleanup patch.  Thanks Joe.

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