netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 01/10] devlink: bump the instance index directly when iterating

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Message-ID: <20230103183140.50568412@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 3 Jan 2023 18:31:40 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     jacob.e.keller@...el.com, leon@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 01/10] devlink: bump the instance index directly
 when iterating

On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 08:35:16 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >> To be honest, this "we something" desctiption style makes things quite
> >> hard to understand. Could you please rephrase it to actually talk
> >> about the entities in code?  
> >
> >Could you be more specific? I'm probably misunderstanding but it sounds
> >to me like you're asking me to describe what I'm doing rather than
> >the background and motivation.  
> 
> "We" is us, you me and other people. It is weird to talk about the code
> and what there as "we do", "we use" etc. It's quite confusing as the
> reader it not able to distinguish if you are talking about code or
> people (developers in this case). I'm just askin if it is possible
> to make the descriptions easier to understand.

Actually thinking about it again, this patch is not strictly
necessary. I'll rewrite the commit message to just say it's a
simplification based on the fact we don't have multi-index entries.