From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: Li zeming <zeming@nfschina.com>,
jhs@mojatatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/net/act: Remove temporary state variables
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 23:51:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220728235121.43bedc43@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YuN+i2WtzfA0wDQb@nanopsycho>
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:30:35 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> How many case like this are there in the kernel?
>> What tool are you using to find this?
>> We should focus on creating CI tools which can help catch instances of
>> this pattern in new code before it gets added, rather than cleaning up
>> old code. It just makes backports harder for hardly any gain.
>
> What backports do you have in mind exactly?
Code backports. I don't understand the question.
There's little benefit and we're getting multiple such patches a day.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-29 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-27 9:41 [PATCH] sched/net/act: Remove temporary state variables Li zeming
2022-07-29 3:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-07-29 6:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-07-29 6:51 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-07-29 7:00 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-07-29 7:18 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-07-29 8:11 ` Jiri Pirko
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