Re: [net PATCH 3/9] octeontx2-af: Do not allocate memory for devlink private

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Mar 16 2021 - 13:05:49 EST


On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:57:07 +0530 Hariprasad Kelam wrote:
> From: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Memory for driver private structure rvu_devlink is
> also allocated during devlink_alloc. Hence use
> the allocated memory by devlink_alloc and access it
> by devlink_priv call.
>
> Fixes: fae06da4("octeontx2-af: Add devlink suppoort to af driver")
> Signed-off-by: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Kelam <hkelam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Does it fix any bug? Looks like a coding improvement.