RE: [PATCH] qed: fix uninitialized data in aRFS intrastructure

From: Mintz, Yuval
Date: Thu May 11 2017 - 10:03:31 EST


> register, which went subtly wrong due to the wrong size in a memset():
>
> ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_init_fw_funcs.c: In function
> 'qed_set_rfs_mode_disable':
> ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_init_fw_funcs.c:993:3: error: '*((void
> *)&ramline+4)' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
>
> This removes the silly loop and memset, and instead directly writes the
> correct value to the register.

Hi Arnd,

For the most part - I'm almost all in favor of this change.
But just to make it clear - the actual fix could have been a one-liner, right?
The rest are style changes.

> +#define CAM_REG(pf_id) (PRS_REG_GFT_CAM + CAM_LINE_SIZE * (pf_id))
> +#define RAM_REG(pf_id) (PRS_REG_GFT_PROFILE_MASK_RAM +

Not sure I'm a huge fan of this specific style change;
Seems like we could easily manage without these macros.