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Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 19:20:15 +0000
From: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@....com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
CC: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Wei Fang <wei.fang@....com>, "David S.
 Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub
 Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Clark Wang
	<xiaoning.wang@....com>, dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@....com>, Alexei Starovoitov
	<ast@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Jesper Dangaard
 Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org"
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "imx@...ts.linux.dev" <imx@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 net 2/2] net: fec: restructuring the
 functions to avoid forward declarations



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2023 2:07 PM
> To: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@....com>
> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>; Wei Fang <wei.fang@....com>; David S.
> Miller <davem@...emloft.net>; Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>; Jakub
> Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>; Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>; Clark Wang
> <xiaoning.wang@....com>; dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@....com>; Alexei
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> Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>; John Fastabend
> <john.fastabend@...il.com>; Alexander Lobakin
> <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>; netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-
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> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 net 2/2] net: fec: restructuring the functions to
> avoid forward declarations
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> On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 06:41:59PM +0000, Shenwei Wang wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > > > On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 05:08:18PM -0500, Shenwei Wang wrote:
> > > > > > The patch reorganizes functions related to XDP frame
> > > > > > transmission, moving them above the fec_enet_run_xdp
> > > > > > implementation. This eliminates the need for forward declarations of
> these functions.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm confused. Are these two patches in the wrong order?
> > > > >
> > > > > The reason that i asked you to fix the forward declaration in
> > > > > net-next is that it makes your fix two patches. Sometimes that
> > > > > is not obvious to people back porting patches, and one gets
> > > > > lost, causing build problems. So it is better to have a single
> > > > > patch which is maybe not 100% best practice merged to stable,
> > > > > and then a cleanup patch
> > > merged to the head of development.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > If that is the case, we should forgo the second patch. Its purpose
> > > > was to reorganize function order such that the subsequent patch to
> > > > net-next enabling XDP_TX would not encounter forward declaration issues.
> > >
> > > I think a good plan would be, as I understood Andrew's original
> > > suggestion,
> > > to:
> > >
> > > 1. Only have patch 2/2, targeted at 'net', for now 2. Later, once
> > > that patch has been accepted into 'net', 'net-next' has
> > >    reopened, and that patch is present in 'net-next', then follow-up
> > >    with patch 1/2, which is a cleanup.
> >
> > So should I re-submit the patch? Or you just take the 1st patch and
> > drop the 2nd one?
>
> net and net-next work on a granularity of patch-sets.
> So I would suggest re-submitting only patch 2/2 for 'net'.
>

Hi Simon,

I'm a bit confused.

Are you suggesting that I submit the following restructuring patch for 'net' at this time?
[PATCH v2 net 2/2] net: fec: restructuring the functions to avoid forward declarations

Thanks,
Shenwei


> I would also suggest waiting 24h between posting v2 and v3, as per
> https://kernel.or/
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