Re: [patch 20/30] net/mlx4: Replace irq_to_desc() abuse

[Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/10/2020 9:25 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> No driver has any business with the internals of an interrupt
> descriptor. Storing a pointer to it just to use yet another helper at the
> actual usage site to retrieve the affinity mask is creative at best. Just
> because C does not allow encapsulation does not mean that the kernel has no
> limits.
>
> Retrieve a pointer to the affinity mask itself and use that. It's still
> using an interface which is usually not for random drivers, but definitely
> less hideous than the previous hack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c   |    8 +++-----
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c   |    6 +-----
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h |    3 ++-
>   3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch.