netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] devlink: Add health recover notifications on devlink flows

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:51:51 +0000
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
To:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...lanox.com>
CC:     "vikas.gupta@...adcom.com" <vikas.gupta@...adcom.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] devlink: Add health recover notifications on
 devlink flows

On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 10:50 +0100, David Miller wrote:
> From: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...lanox.com>
> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 17:04:28 +0200
> 
> > Devlink health recover notifications were added only on driver
> direct
> > updates of health_state through
> devlink_health_reporter_state_update().
> > Add notifications on updates of health_state by devlink flows of
> report
> > and recover.
> > 
> > Fixes: 97ff3bd37fac ("devlink: add devink notification when
> reporter update health state")
> > Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...lanox.com>
> > Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> I really dislike forward declarations and almost all of the time they
> are
> unnecessary.
> 

Hi Dave, a question just for educational purposes, i agree regarding
function forward declarations, bottom-up organizing should always be
followed. 

But how about type forward declaration ? for hiding struct details in
specifc c file.. is it a bad practice ?

I use this trick a lot in mlx5, for detail hiding and module separation
.. 

> Could you please just rearrange the code as needed and resubmit?
> 
> Thank you.