Re: [PATCH V3 net-next 3/8] net: hns3: Add HNS3 VF HCL(Hardware Compatibility Layer) Support

From: Philippe Ombredanne
Date: Tue Dec 12 2017 - 17:41:36 EST


Dear Salil,

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch adds the support of hardware compatibiltiy layer to the
> HNS3 VF Driver. This layer implements various {set|get} operations
> over MAC address for a virtual port, RSS related configuration,
> fetches the link status info from PF, does various VLAN related
> configuration over the virtual port, queries the statistics from
> the hardware etc.
>
> This layer can directly interact with hardware through the
> IMP(Integrated Mangement Processor) interface or can use mailbox
> to interact with the PF driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: lipeng <lipeng321@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Patch V3: Addressed SPDX change requested by Philippe Ombredanne
> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/8/874
> Patch V2: Addressed some internal comments
> Patch V1: Initial Submit
> ---
> .../ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c | 1490 ++++++++++++++++++++
> .../ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.h | 164 +++
> 2 files changed, 1654 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.h
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..ff55f4c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,1490 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +/*
> + * Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Hisilicon Limited.
> + */

This is just me nitpicking and this is entirely up to you.... but in
such a simple case you could go all the way too:

> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +// Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Hisilicon Limited.

In this case this can make the thing look more consistent.
See also Linus commentaries about this [1][2][3][4]

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/25/133
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/25/125
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/2/715
[4] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/2/805

--
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne