Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/5] net: Add netdev_config helpers

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:20:35 -0700 Breno Leitao wrote:
> > +void __netdev_free_config(struct netdev_config *cfg)
> > +{
> > +	kfree(cfg);
> > +}  
> 
> When I read this one, I was expecting __netdev_free_config() to "become
> more complicated", but, it continues to alway be a single kfree(). How
> is this helper useful?

It was taken out of a series which had per-queue config so there was
also an allocation of a variable size array. I asked Bjorn to add this
patch, anyway, otherwise we'd need to open code netdev_reconfig_start()
in a second place. The per-queue config will come sooner or later.