Johannes Berg wrote: >I don't think it is. > >The bugfix is certainly legitimate, but I don't want to claim such a >long patch as the bugfix, with a single compiler warning to show for.
Understood. >If you prefer, I can do the bugfix separately myself, and then you can >focus on the remaining patches as cleanups for -next. I will send both as v3. Omer. ________________________________________ From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 7:12:13 PM To: Omer Efrat; [email protected] Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] mac80211: use BIT_ULL for NL80211_STA_INFO_* attribute types On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 15:55 +0000, Omer Efrat wrote: > Omer Efrat wrote: > > Johannes Berg wrote: > > > Perhaps, though I'm not sure I see it, there's some value in switching > > > them all so that if you copy something and change it to a new value you > > > don't run into this problem again, but if anything that should be (a) > > > separate patch(es) since this one is a bugfix and the others aren't. > > > > Exactly my thoughts. I accept the need for the cleanup to be separated > > to different patches as well, I will send a v3. > > Actually, after some more thought, I don't think changing to BIT_ULL for > attribute types less than 32 should be in separated patches because of the > claim > they are not a bug fix. I disagree, they aren't a bugfix. > This enum already has different numbering in different versions (attributes > removed from the middle, > i.e. NL80211_STA_INFO_MAX_RSSI). This must be in some non-upstream tree, because it certainly never happened in upstream, nor did that attribute (MAX_RSSI) ever exist there. > Therefore, it's hard to mark each of them as "bug fix" or "cleanup only" > change. > (Some versions has NL80211_STA_INFO_TID_STATS = 32, while others has > NL80211_STA_INFO_TID_STATS = 31, etc.) > > If that's acceptable, I will send a v3 for adding which commit is being fixed > by this patch series. I don't think it is. The bugfix is certainly legitimate, but I don't want to claim such a long patch as the bugfix, with a single compiler warning to show for. If you prefer, I can do the bugfix separately myself, and then you can focus on the remaining patches as cleanups for -next. johannes
