netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v8 03/10] net/smc: unify the structs of accept or confirm message for v1 and v2

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Message-ID: <f43f77f9-416b-4ef6-9def-f0dd1b7a3efb@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:27:45 +0100
From: Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Wen Gu <guwen@...ux.alibaba.com>, wenjia@...ux.ibm.com, hca@...ux.ibm.com,
        gor@...ux.ibm.com, agordeev@...ux.ibm.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        kgraul@...ux.ibm.com, jaka@...ux.ibm.com
Cc: borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com, svens@...ux.ibm.com, alibuda@...ux.alibaba.com,
        tonylu@...ux.alibaba.com, raspl@...ux.ibm.com, schnelle@...ux.ibm.com,
        guangguan.wang@...ux.alibaba.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v8 03/10] net/smc: unify the structs of accept or
 confirm message for v1 and v2



On 19.12.23 15:26, Wen Gu wrote:
> The structs of CLC accept and confirm messages for SMCv1 and SMCv2 are
> separately defined and often casted to each other in the code, which may
> increase the risk of errors caused by future divergence of them. So
> unify them into one struct for better maintainability.
> 
> Suggested-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Gu <guwen@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  net/smc/af_smc.c  | 52 +++++++++++++------------------------
>  net/smc/smc_clc.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  net/smc/smc_clc.h | 42 +++++++++++++-----------------
>  3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)

Thanks a lot Wen Gu, I really love this.
Using an unnamed union is a great solution here. Now the code is so much more
readable and maintainable

Reviewed-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>