From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: sagi@grimberg.me, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] nvme: define constants for identification values
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 11:07:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200404170742.GA53042@C02WT3WMHTD6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200404070437.GA14423@lst.de>
On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 09:04:37AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 10:53:46AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> > Improve code readability by defining the specification's constants that
> > the driver is using when decoding identification payloads.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
>
> I can't say I find this an improvement - the bit values allow you
> to jump straight to the spec, while the names need a translation
> (either to the actual bit or the spec name without underscores and co
> first).
Named constants tell us what they are inline with the code that's
using it. You can make sense of the code just by reading the code,
no additional docs or code comments required.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-03 17:53 [PATCHv2] nvme: define constants for identification values Keith Busch
2020-04-03 20:08 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-04-04 7:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-04 17:07 ` Keith Busch [this message]
2020-04-07 17:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-07 17:47 ` Sagi Grimberg
2020-04-07 18:16 ` Keith Busch
2020-04-07 20:37 ` Sagi Grimberg
2020-04-10 2:34 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-04-10 5:08 ` Keith Busch
2020-04-10 5:53 ` Sagi Grimberg
2020-05-06 6:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
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