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From:   Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:25:00 +0800
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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        Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 16/19] staging: qlge: remove deadcode in qlge_build_rx_skb
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 10:29:39AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 09:48:59PM +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
>> This part of code is for the case that "the headers and data are in
>> a single large buffer". However, qlge_process_mac_split_rx_intr is for
>> handling packets that packets underwent head splitting. In reality, with
>> jumbo frame enabled, the part of code couldn't be reached regardless of
>> the packet size when ping the NIC.
>>
>
>This commit message is a bit confusing.  We're just deleting the else
>statement.  Once I knew that then it was easy enough to review
>qlge_process_mac_rx_intr() and see that if if
>ib_mac_rsp->flags3 & IB_MAC_IOCB_RSP_DL is set then
>ib_mac_rsp->flags4 & IB_MAC_IOCB_RSP_HV must be set.

Do you suggest moving to upper if, i.e.

         } else if (ib_mac_rsp->flags3 & IB_MAC_IOCB_RSP_DL && ib_mac_rsp->flags4 & IB_MAC_IOCB_RSP_HS) {

and then deleting the else statement?

>
>regards,
>dan carpenter
>

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Best regards,
Coiby