netdev - Re: [PATCH iwl-net] ice: add missing napi deletion

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Message-ID: <20230620095335.43504612@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:53:35 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com, magnus.karlsson@...el.com,
 michal.swiatkowski@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-net] ice: add missing napi deletion

On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:24:54 +0200 Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> Error path from ice_probe() is missing ice_napi_del() calls, add it to
> ice_deinit_eth() as ice_init_eth() was the one to add napi instances. It
> is also a good habit to delete napis when removing driver and this also
> addresses that. FWIW ice_napi_del() had no callsites.
> 
> Fixes: 6624e780a577 ("ice: split ice_vsi_setup into smaller functions")
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>

Is there user visible impact? I agree that it's a good habit, but
since unregister cleans up NAPI instances automatically the patch
is not necessarily a fix.