netdev - Re: [PATCH iwl-next 4/6] ice: remove unused recipe bookkeeping data

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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:41:28 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Marcin Szycik <marcin.szycik@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com, przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-next 4/6] ice: remove unused recipe bookkeeping data

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 04:11:55PM +0200, Marcin Szycik wrote:
> From: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Remove root_buf from recipe struct. Its only usage was in ice_find_recp(),
> where if recipe had an inverse action, it was skipped, but actually the
> driver never adds inverse actions, so effectively it was pointless.
> 
> Without root_buf, the recipe data element in ice_add_sw_recipe() does
> not need to be persistent and can also be automatically deallocated with
> __free, which nicely simplifies unroll.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Szycik <marcin.szycik@...ux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>