Re: [PATCH net-next 3/5] net: hns3: provide .get_cmdq_stat interface for the client

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Mon, 11 May 2020 08:13:06 +0800 tanhuazhong wrote:
> On 2020/5/10 4:48, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 May 2020 17:27:39 +0800 Huazhong Tan wrote:  
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hnae3.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hnae3.h
> >> index 5602bf2..7506cab 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hnae3.h
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hnae3.h
> >> @@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ struct hnae3_ae_ops {
> >>   	int (*set_vf_mac)(struct hnae3_handle *handle, int vf, u8 *p);
> >>   	int (*get_module_eeprom)(struct hnae3_handle *handle, u32 offset,
> >>   				 u32 len, u8 *data);
> >> +	bool (*get_cmdq_stat)(struct hnae3_handle *handle);
> >>   };  
> > 
> > I don't see anything in this series using this new interface, why is it
> > added now?
> 
> This interface is needed by the roce client, whose patch will be
> upstreamed to the rdma tree, it is other branch. So we provide this 
> interface previously, then the rdma guy will upstream their patch later,
> maybe linux-5.8-rc*.

Understood. Please make sure to include this kind of information in the
cover letter in the future.