netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v12 04/15] net: stmmac: dwmac-loongson: Drop useless platform data

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Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 17:46:43 +0800
From: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@...ngson.cn>
To: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
Cc: andrew@...n.ch, hkallweit1@...il.com, peppe.cavallaro@...com,
 alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com, joabreu@...opsys.com, Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com,
 chenhuacai@...nel.org, linux@...linux.org.uk, guyinggang@...ngson.cn,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, chris.chenfeiyang@...il.com, siyanteng01@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v12 04/15] net: stmmac: dwmac-loongson: Drop
 useless platform data


在 2024/5/3 18:55, Serge Semin 写道:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 09:04:35PM +0800, Yanteng Si wrote:
>> The multicast_filter_bins is initialized twice, it should
>> be 256, let's drop the first useless assignment.
> Please drop the second plat_stmmacenet_data::multicast_filter_bins
> init statement and just change the first one to initializing the
> correct value - 256. Thus you'll have
> 1. the multicast and unicast filters size inits done in the same place;
> 2. the in-situ comments preserved (it's not like they're that much
> helpful, but seeing the rest of the lines have a comment above it
> would be nice to have the comment preserved here too);
> 3. dropped the statement closely attached to the return statement
> (in kernel it's a widespread practice to separate the return
> statement with an empty line).
>
> The unit 1. is the main reason of course.
>
> A bit more readable commit log would be:
>
> "The plat_stmmacenet_data::multicast_filter_bins  field is twice
> initialized in the loongson_default_data() method. Drop the redundant
> initialization, but for the readability sake keep the filters init
> statements defined in the same place of the method."

OK!


Thanks,

Yanteng