netdev - Re: [PATCH] qed: Remove unused QED_RDMA_DEV_CAP_* symbols and dev->dev

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Date:   Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:25:49 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     helgaas@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Ariel.Elior@...ium.com, everest-linux-l2@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qed: Remove unused QED_RDMA_DEV_CAP_* symbols and
 dev->dev_caps

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:13:54 -0500 (EST)

> From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 17:03:01 -0600
> 
>> From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
>> 
>> The QED_RDMA_DEV_CAP_* symbols are only used to set bits in dev->dev_caps.
>> Nobody ever looks at those bits.  Remove the symbols and dev_caps itself.
>> 
>> Note that if these are ever used and added back, it looks incorrect to set
>> QED_RDMA_DEV_CAP_ATOMIC_OP based on PCI_EXP_DEVCTL2_LTR_EN.  LTR is the
>> Latency Tolerance Reporting mechanism, which has nothing to do with Atomic
>> Ops.
>> 
>> No functional change intended.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> 
> Applied to net-next.

Actually, this doesn't build, reverted:

drivers/infiniband/hw/qedr/main.c: In function ‘qedr_set_device_attr’:
drivers/infiniband/hw/qedr/main.c:682:27: error: ‘struct qed_rdma_device’ has no member named ‘dev_caps’
  attr->dev_caps = qed_attr->dev_caps;