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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: <ath6kl-devel@qualcomm.com>, <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] ath6kl: checkpatch fixes
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:41:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4E635A.3060003@qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330537026.13689.1.camel@joe2Laptop>

On 02/29/2012 07:37 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 19:18 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Here are quite a few checkpatch fixes and other cleanups.
>>
>> Especially I would like to people review these two macros, they ended up
>> a bit too clever and I'm sure there are issues:
>>
>> #define ath6kl_bmi_write_hi32(ar, item, val)				\
>> 	({								\
>> 		u32 addr;						\
>> 		__le32 v;						\
>> 									\
>> 		addr = ath6kl_get_hi_item_addr(ar, HI_ITEM(item));	\
>> 		v = cpu_to_le32(val);					\
>> 		ath6kl_bmi_write(ar, addr, (u8 *) &v, sizeof(v));	\
>> 	})
>>
>> #define ath6kl_bmi_read_hi32(ar, item, val)				\
>> 	({								\
>> 		u32 addr, *check_type = val;				\
>> 		__le32 tmp;						\
>> 		int ret;						\
>> 									\
>> 		(void) (check_type == val);				\
>> 		addr = ath6kl_get_hi_item_addr(ar, HI_ITEM(item));	\
>> 		ret = ath6kl_bmi_read(ar, addr, (u8 *) &tmp, 4);	\
>> 		*val = le32_to_cpu(tmp);				\
>> 		ret;							\
>> 	})
> 
> Why not just make these functions?

Because of the HI_ITEM() macro I can't pass the item parameter to a
function:

#define HI_ITEM(item)  offsetof(struct host_interest, item)

I'm planning to change how host interest address are handled at some
point, but I don't have time to do that right now.

Kalle

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-29 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-29 17:18 [PATCH 00/12] ath6kl: checkpatch fixes Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:18 ` [PATCH 01/12] ath6kl: fix pointer style Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:18 ` [PATCH 02/12] ath6kl: fix checkpatch error with EPSTAT() macro Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:18 ` [PATCH 03/12] ath6kl: alignment should match open parenthesis Kalle Valo
2012-03-07 19:26   ` Joe Perches
2012-03-07 20:18     ` Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:19 ` [PATCH 04/12] ath6kl: logical continuations should be on the previous line Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:19 ` [PATCH 05/12] ath6kl: remove multiple assignments Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:19 ` [PATCH 06/12] ath6kl: add ath6kl_bmi_write_hi32() Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:19 ` [PATCH 07/12] ath6kl: add ath6kl_bmi_read_hi32() Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:19 ` [PATCH 08/12] ath6kl: fix error handling ath6kl_target_config_wlan_params() Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:19 ` [PATCH 09/12] ath6kl: fix open paranthesis alignment in ath6kl_cfg80211_connect() Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:19 ` [PATCH 10/12] ath6kl: document all spinlocks Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:20 ` [PATCH 11/12] ath6kl: fix too long lines Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:20 ` [PATCH 12/12] ath6kl: make ath6kl_bmi_[read|write]_hi32() endian safe Kalle Valo
2012-02-29 17:37 ` [PATCH 00/12] ath6kl: checkpatch fixes Joe Perches
2012-02-29 17:41   ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2012-02-29 18:21     ` Joe Perches
2012-03-05 16:33       ` Kalle Valo
2012-03-07 17:57       ` Kalle Valo
2012-03-07 18:37         ` Joe Perches
2012-03-07 19:01 ` Kalle Valo

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