[Intel-gfx] [patch 20/30] net/mlx4: Replace irq_to_desc() abuse
Tariq Toukan
ttoukan.linux at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 11:24:00 UTC 2020
On 12/10/2020 9:25 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> No driver has any business with the internals of an interrupt
> descriptor. Storing a pointer to it just to use yet another helper at the
> actual usage site to retrieve the affinity mask is creative at best. Just
> because C does not allow encapsulation does not mean that the kernel has no
> limits.
>
> Retrieve a pointer to the affinity mask itself and use that. It's still
> using an interface which is usually not for random drivers, but definitely
> less hideous than the previous hack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt at nvidia.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
> Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c | 8 +++-----
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 6 +-----
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h | 3 ++-
> 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt at nvidia.com>
Thanks for your patch.
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