netdev - Re: [net-next 0/9][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2014-10-23

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:45:50 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	jogreene@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/9][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates
 2014-10-23

On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 16:43 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:09:57 -0700
> 
> > This series contains updates to i40e and i40evf.
> > 
> > Jesse modifies the i40e driver to only notify the firmware on link up/down
> > and qualified module events.  Also simplified the job of managing link
> > state by using the admin queue receive event for link events as a signal
> > to tell the driver to update link state.
> > 
> > Jeff (me) cleans up the inconsistent use of tabs for indentation in the admin
> > queue command header file.
> > 
> > Neerav converts the use of udelay() to usleep_range().
> > 
> > Anjali fixes a bug where receive would stop after some stress by adding
> > a sleep and restart as well as moving the setting of flow control because
> > it should be done at a PF level and not a VSI level.
> > 
> > Mitch adds code to handle link events when updating the PF switch, which
> > allows link information to be properly provided to VFS in all cases.
> > 
> > Catherine adds driver support for 10GBaseT and bumps driver version.
> 
> I've pulled, but I absolutely don't like that change that moved the
> variables out of the loop.
> 
> Putting variables in the inner-most scope of their use is always the
> best choice because:
> 
> 1) Auditing is easier, because you are constraining the scope in
>    which you have to check if the variable is setup properly
>    before it is used.
> 
> 2) You are helping the compiler out, because you have done the
>    majority of solving the graph coloring problem for it and the
>    compiler therefore has less work to do.
> 
> Please don't make changes like this in the future, and instead do the
> opposite, by moving more variable declarations into their innermost
> possible scope.
> 
> Thanks.

Noted, and I have forwarded on your request on to the team so that we
are all on the same page.

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (820 bytes)