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Message-ID: <20170516122532.GL1939@nanopsycho.orion>
Date:   Tue, 16 May 2017 14:25:32 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, dsa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        daniel@...earbox.net, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com,
        simon.horman@...ronome.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 04/10] net: sched: replace nprio by a bool to
 make the function more readable

Tue, May 16, 2017 at 02:09:25PM CEST, jhs@...atatu.com wrote:
>On 17-05-15 04:38 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
>> index 88ec1a1..0e49e6e 100644
>> --- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
>> +++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
>> @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static int tc_ctl_tfilter(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *n,
>>  	struct tcmsg *t;
>>  	u32 protocol;
>>  	u32 prio;
>> -	u32 nprio;
>> +	bool prio_allocate;
>
>prio_allocated? (past tense seems more sensible)

No, it actually tell if the prio should be allocated:

                if (prio_allocate)
                        prio = tcf_auto_prio(tcf_chain_tp_prev(&chain_info));

I believe it is accurate.