netdev - Re: [patch net-next] devlink: add format requirement for devlink param names

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Message-ID: <20191018165842.GG2185@nanopsycho>
Date:   Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:58:42 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, andrew@...n.ch, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] devlink: add format requirement for devlink
 param names

Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 06:33:22PM CEST, stephen@...workplumber.org wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:07:26 +0200
>Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>
>> +static bool devlink_param_valid_name(const char *name)
>> +{
>> +	int len = strlen(name);
>> +	int i;
>> +
>> +	/* Name can contain lowercase characters or digits.
>> +	 * Underscores are also allowed, but not at the beginning
>> +	 * or end of the name and not more than one in a row.
>> +	 */
>> +
>> +	for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
>
>Very minor stuff.
>   1. since strlen technically returns size_t why not make both i and len type size_t
>   2. no blank line after comment and before loop?

Ok.