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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 09:02:53 +0100
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...dia.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] devlink: Move devlink dev selftest code to
dev
Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 08:46:21PM CET, kuba@...nel.org wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 21:33:52 +0200 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
>> On 02/02/2023 20:17, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 16:47:06 +0200 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
>> >> Move devlink dev selftest callbacks and related code from leftover.c to
>> >> file dev.c. No functional change in this patch.
>> > selftest I'd put in its own file. We don't want every command which
>> > doesn't have a specific sub-object to end up in dev.c, right?
>> > At least that was my initial thinking. I don't see any dependencies
>> > between the selftest code and the rest of the dev code either.
>> > WDYT?
>>
>> I thought as it is devlink dev selftest, the sub-object is dev.
>> Otherwise, what should be the rule here ?
>>
>> How do we decide if it should get its own file ?
>
>My thinking was that it should be much easier for newcomers to grok
>"what does it take to implement a devlink command" if most of the
>subcommands where in their own files, like in ethtool.
>
>The implementation could have as well made selftest a subobject.
>But I don't feel strongly, if noone agrees we can apply as is and
>see if dev.c does indeed start to grow out of proportion.
I think that per-object separation is good for now. I see no point of
having per-cmd files of sometimes 50 lines. IDK. No strong opinion.
I would start with per-object.
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