netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 2/8] net: hns3: Add support of the HNAE3 framework

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Date:   Sun, 18 Jun 2017 16:53:05 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, yisen.zhuang@...wei.com,
        huangdaode@...ilicon.com, lipeng321@...wei.com,
        mehta.salil.lnk@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxarm@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 2/8] net: hns3: Add support of the HNAE3
 framework

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:10:29AM +0100, Salil Mehta wrote:
> This patch adds the support of the HNAE3 (Hisilicon Network
> Acceleration Engine 3) framework support to the HNS3 driver.
> 
> Framework facilitates clients like ENET(HNS3 Ethernet Driver), RoCE
> and user-space Ethernet drivers (like ODP etc.) to register with HNAE3
> devices and their associated operations.

checkpatch throws out one warning in this file

CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written "pos"
#3508: FILE: drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hns3_enet.h:572:
+      for (pos = (head).ring; pos != NULL; pos = pos->next)

This one seems valid. Not all checkpatch warnings are.

     Andrew