netdev - Re: [patch net-next] net: sched: choke: remove dead filter classify code

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Message-Id: <20170324.124741.1497247366241339255.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:47:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] net: sched: choke: remove dead filter
 classify code

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:02:16 +0100

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> sch_choke is classless qdisc so it does not define cl_ops. Therefore
> filter_list cannot be ever changed, being NULL all the time.
> Reason is this check in tc_ctl_tfilter:
> 
> 	/* Is it classful? */
> 	cops = q->ops->cl_ops;
> 	if (!cops)
> 		return -EINVAL;
> 
> So remove this dead code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

Applied, thanks Jiri.