Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ena: Add a driver for Amazon Elastic Network Adapters (ENA)

From: Matt Wilson
Date: Wed Jun 15 2016 - 02:40:55 EST


On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:27:09PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Matt Wilson <msw@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 23:23:36 -0700
>
> > Point taken, though existing drivers (even fairly popular ones) also
> > aren't as clean as you might like. A quick look around...
>
> Existing drivers do undesirable things, film at 11...
>
> Yet are never a reason to accept such things in new drivers.

I generally agree with this philosophy.

> > Like many other network drivers, some of this is common code used for
> > non-Linux systems, and that's why there is some overlap with Linux
> > facilities.
>
> Again, never an excuse for such things.

I suppose I was just happy to have the *majorly* objectionable parts
cleaned up...

> > Are there other things that jump out at you?
>
> I review hundreds of patches a day, I invested what I was able to
> before moving on to other people's work.

I wasn't asking you to do more, only if you had anything else you
wanted to say before Netanel sends a v2.

> Other developers must help review such a large driver submission, it
> can't all be on me.

And I'm certainly not saying it's all on you. I've been reviewing this
with the team for quite a while to get it in pretty reasonable (IMHO)
shape.

--msw