[PATCH net-next 2/3] net: airoha: Add airoha_ppe_foe_flow_remove_entry_locked()

[Lorenzo Bianconi]

> On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 04:18:31PM +0200, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > Introduce airoha_ppe_foe_flow_remove_entry_locked utility routine
> > in order to run airoha_ppe_foe_flow_remove_entry holding ppe_lock.
> > This is a preliminary patch to L2 offloading support to airoha_eth
> > driver.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo at kernel.org>
> 
> Could you please explain the reason of introducing the *_remove_entry_locked
> function if "airoha_ppe_foe_flow_remove_entry()" is still never called out of
> "airoha_ppe_foe_flow_remove_entry_locked()" context (at least in this
> series)?
> I would expect that it can be useful if you have an use case when you want
> to call "airoha_ppe_foe_flow_remove_entry()" from another function that
> has already taken the lock, but I haven't found such a context.

ack, you are right. I guess we can drop
airoha_ppe_foe_flow_remove_entry_locked(). I will fix it in v2.

Regards,
Lorenzo

> 
> Thanks,
> Michal
> 
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