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From: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@netronome.com,
	Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: some build fixes and other improvements
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:38:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190419083825.GA19272@pc-2.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190418173407.3909143b@cakuba.netronome.com>

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 05:34:07PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:06:47 -0700 (PDT), David Miller wrote:
> > From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:51:54 -0700
> > 
> > > A few unrelated improvements here, mostly trying to make random
> > > configs build and W=1 produce a little less warnings under net/
> > > and drivers net/.
> > > 
> > > First two patches fix set but not used warnings with W=1.
> > > 
> > > Next patch fixes 64bit division in sch_taprio.c.
> > > 
> > > Last two patches are getting rid of some (almost) unused asserts
> > > in skbuff.h.  
> > 
> > Series applied, thanks Jakub.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > That l2tp one was weird, apparently that value was never ever used.
> 
> Yess, the only explanation I could come up with was that Guillaume
> wanted to make sure user space passed a valid pointer, even if it's
> unused today.  But that's pure speculation :S

Exactly. These ioctl commands didn't make sense and had no effect. I
didn't remove them because they had been part of the ABI for so long.
Maintaining the behaviour for invalid pointers was probably a bit
overzealous though.

I missed your patch, will rework my mail filters. Anyway thanks for
taking care of that.

Guillaume

      reply	other threads:[~2019-04-19 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-17 20:51 [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: some build fixes and other improvements Jakub Kicinski
2019-04-17 20:51 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] l2tp: fix set but not used variable Jakub Kicinski
2019-04-17 20:51 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] sb1000: fix variable set but not used warnings Jakub Kicinski
2019-04-17 20:51 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] net/sched: taprio: fix build without 64bit div Jakub Kicinski
2019-04-17 22:32   ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2019-04-30  0:04   ` Leandro Dorileo
2019-04-17 20:51 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] net: gemini: remove unnecessary assert Jakub Kicinski
2019-04-17 20:51 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] net: skb: remove unused asserts Jakub Kicinski
2019-04-19  0:06 ` [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: some build fixes and other improvements David Miller
2019-04-19  0:34   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-04-19  8:38     ` Guillaume Nault [this message]

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