Re: [PATCH 15/15] ehea: Remove unused tcp_end field in send WQ
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: 2011-05-12 03:12:10
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: 2011-05-12 03:12:10
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 23:06 -0400, David Miller wrote:
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 19:31:13 -0700quoted
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 10:52 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:quoted
plain text document attachment (ehea_22.patch) The tcp_end field is not actually used by the hardware, so there is no need to set it.+++ linux-net/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.h 2011-05-12 07:48:06.380382084 +1000@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct ehea_swqe { u8 immediate_data_length; u8 tcp_offset; u8 reserved2; - u16 tcp_end; + u16 reserved2b; u8 wrap_tag; u8 descriptors; /* number of valid descriptors in WQE */ u16 reserved3;struct ehea_swqe isn't __packed. Shouldn't it be?Please don't mark it __packed unless absolutely necessary :-)
Isn't it read from hardware. If not, why reserve anything?