netdev - Re: [PATCH, v2] ibmvnic: store RX and TX subCRQ handle array in ibmvnic

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Message-Id: <20200709.125942.1978983820858170955.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 09 Jul 2020 12:59:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     cforno12@...ux.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, v2] ibmvnic: store RX and TX subCRQ handle array in
 ibmvnic_adapter struct

From: Cristobal Forno <cforno12@...ux.ibm.com>
Date: Thu,  9 Jul 2020 14:37:56 -0500

> Currently the driver reads RX and TX subCRQ handle array directly from
> a DMA-mapped buffer address when it needs to make a H_SEND_SUBCRQ
> hcall. This patch stores that information in the ibmvnic_sub_crq_queue
> structure instead of reading from the buffer received at login.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cristobal Forno <cforno12@...ux.ibm.com>

Why?  Please explain why you want to do this.

Also, this is a cleanup or a refactoring, not a bug fix.  So you should
target this at the 'net-next' tree and explicitly indicate this in
your Subject line inside the [] brackets.