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Message-ID: <ZAndSR4L1QvOFta6@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 9 Mar 2023 13:21:13 +0000
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Lukasz Majewski <lukma@...x.de>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] dsa: marvell: Add helper function to validate the
 max_frame_size variable

On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 01:54:19PM +0100, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> This commit shall be regarded as a transition one, as this function helps
> to validate the correctness of max_frame_size variable added to
> mv88e6xxx_info structure.
> 
> It is necessary to avoid regressions as manual assessment of this value
> turned out to be error prone.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@...x.de>
> Suggested-by: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@...linux.org.uk>

Shouldn't this be patch 2 - immediately after populating the
.max_frame_size members, and before adding any additional devices?

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