[PATCH 3/5] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Don't account SWA in tx_data_offset

[Dan Carpenter]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 02:31:22PM +0000, Bogdan Purcareata wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter at oracle.com]
> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 5:27 PM
> > To: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata at nxp.com>
> > Cc: Ruxandra Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu at nxp.com>;
> > gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> > devel at driverdev.osuosl.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Don't account SWA in
> > tx_data_offset
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 02:11:34PM +0000, Bogdan Purcareata wrote:
> > > When configuring the Tx buffer layout, the software annotation size is
> > > mentioned, and MC accounts for it when configuring the frame
> > > tx_data_offset. No need to handle it in the driver as well.
> > >
> > 
> > The impact is that we allocate slightly less memory right?
> 
> Yes, 64B per frame.

Ok.  Cool.  Please put this kind of stuff in the changelog.  At first I
thought it was maybe a buffer overflow just from reading what was in the
email without looking at the code.

regards,
dan carpenter