netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/3] net: mscc: ocelot: remove unnecessary exposure of stats structures

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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:54:33 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Colin Foster <colin.foster@...advantage.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/3] net: mscc: ocelot: remove unnecessary
 exposure of stats structures

On Sat, 2022-11-19 at 15:14 -0800, Colin Foster wrote:
> Since commit 4d1d157fb6a4 ("net: mscc: ocelot: share the common stat
> definitions between all drivers") there is no longer a need to share the
> stats structures to the world. Relocate these definitions to inside
> ocelot_stats.c instead of a global include header.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Foster <colin.foster@...advantage.com>

I think it's preferable to keep the moved code verbatim as-is instead
of additionally fixing the checkpatch warning in the same patch.

The mentioned cleanup could be a follow-up patch - togethar with the
trailing empty line removal.

Cheers,

Paolo