netdev - Re: [PATCH for bnxt_re V3 03/21] bnxt_re: register with the NIC driver

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Message-ID: <CA+sbYW2SMbExwyw20TZtn3U13fkJvKCs5P8w5LdovN4Q3u0sjg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:38:40 +0530
From:   Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier@...adcom.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        Eddie Wai <eddie.wai@...adcom.com>,
        Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@...adcom.com>,
        Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@...adcom.com>,
        Sriharsha Basavapatna <sriharsha.basavapatna@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for bnxt_re V3 03/21] bnxt_re: register with the NIC driver

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:11 AM, Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org> wrote:
> Recently, in one of our submission to netdev and rdma, we got
> a reminder that inline functions shouldn't be in *.c. Let for
> the compiler to decide.
>
> IMHO, it should be open-coded without wrappers and honestly I failed to
> understand why do you need so many wrappers for one line standard kernel
> functions.

Agreed. During the initial days of development, we had some debug code also
inside these wrapper functions. Since the debug code was removed before upstream
submission, this function ended up as a wrapper for standard kernel function.
It makes perfect sense to knock off these wrapper functions. I will
queue it for next
clean-up/bug fix patch series.

Thanks