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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: simplify procfs code for seq_file instances
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:06:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180424160652.GA28483@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180424081916.e94ca8463fb3c39ebc082bdd-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 08:19:16AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > I want to ask if it is time to start using poorman function overloading
> > > with _b_c_e(). There are millions of allocation functions for example,
> > > all slightly difference, and people will add more. Seeing /proc interfaces
> > > doubled like this is painful.
> > 
> > Function overloading is totally unacceptable.
> > 
> > And I very much disagree with a tradeoff that keeps 5000 lines of 
> > code vs a few new helpers.
> 
> OK, the curiosity and suspense are killing me.  What the heck is
> "function overloading with _b_c_e()"?

The way I understood Alexey was to use have a proc_create macro
that can take different ops types.  Although the short cut for
__builtin_types_compatible_p would be _b_t_c or similar, so maybe
I misunderstood him.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-24 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-19 12:41 simplify procfs code for seq_file instances Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 01/39] net/can: single_open_net needs to be paired with single_release_net Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 02/39] proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data} Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 18:41   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-04-24 14:29     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 03/39] proc: introduce proc_create_seq_private Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 14:18   ` Dan Carpenter
2018-04-24 14:19     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 18:50   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-04-24 14:29     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 04/39] proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 05/39] ipv{4, 6}/udp{, lite}: simplify proc registration Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 06/39] ipv{4, 6}/tcp: simplify procfs registration Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 07/39] ipv{4, 6}/ping: simplify proc file creation Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 08/39] ipv{4,6}/raw: simplify ѕeq_file code Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 09/39] ipv6/flowlabel: simplify pid namespace lookup Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 10/39] net/kcm: simplify proc registration Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 11/39] netfilter/x_tables: simplify ѕeq_file code Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 12/39] net: move seq_file_single_net to <linux/seq_file_net.h> Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 13/39] proc: introduce proc_create_net{,_data} Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 14/39] proc: introduce proc_create_net_single Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 18:44   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 15/39] acpi/battery: simplify procfs code Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-22  9:42   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 16/39] ipmi: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 15:29   ` Corey Minyard
2018-04-24 14:16     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 17/39] sgi-gru: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 18/39] megaraid: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 19/39] sg: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 20/39] afs: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 21/39] ext4: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 22/39] jfs: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 23/39] staging/rtl8192u: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 24/39] resource: switch to proc_create_seq_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 25/39] drbd: switch to proc_create_single Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 26/39] rtc/proc: switch to proc_create_single_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 13:10   ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-04-24 14:15     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 27/39] bonding: switch to proc_create_seq_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 28/39] hostap: switch to proc_create_{seq,single}_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 29/39] neigh: switch to proc_create_seq_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 30/39] netfilter/xt_hashlimit: switch to proc_create_{seq,single}_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 31/39] netfilter/x_tables: switch to proc_create_seq_private Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 32/39] bluetooth: switch to proc_create_seq_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 33/39] atm: simplify procfs code Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 34/39] atm: switch to proc_create_seq_private Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 35/39] isdn: replace ->proc_fops with ->proc_show Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 36/39] proc: don't detour through seq->private to get the inode Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 37/39] ide: remove ide_driver_proc_write Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 38/39] ide: replace ->proc_fops with ->proc_show Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 12:41 ` [PATCH 39/39] tty: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-19 13:00 ` [PATCH 20/39] afs: simplify procfs code David Howells
2018-04-19 18:57 ` simplify procfs code for seq_file instances Alexey Dobriyan
2018-04-24 14:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-24 15:19     ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]       ` <20180424081916.e94ca8463fb3c39ebc082bdd-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2018-04-24 16:06         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-04-25 21:24           ` Alexey Dobriyan

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