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Date:   Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:03:52 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Daiane Mendes <dnmendes76@...il.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] drivers: net: virtio_net: Implement a
 dev_watchdog handler

On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:48:35 -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/emu/nfeth.c b/arch/m68k/emu/nfeth.c
> index a4ebd2445eda..8e06e7407854 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/emu/nfeth.c
> +++ b/arch/m68k/emu/nfeth.c
> @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static int nfeth_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static void nfeth_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
> +static void nfeth_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev, int txqueue)

Given the recent vf ndo problems, I wonder if it's worth making the
queue id unsigned from the start? Since it's coming from the stack
there should be no range checking required, but also signed doesn't
help anything so why not?

>  {
>  	dev->stats.tx_errors++;
>  	netif_wake_queue(dev);