Re: [RFC][patch 02/12] remove clocksource inline functions

[Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:36:46 +0100
Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Martin
> Schwidefsky<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, you have an object of type struct clocksource and you do
> > cs->read(cs). If that is not clear enough then I don't know what is. We
> > do that all over the place in the linux kernel. And I personally find
> > these useless wrappers rather annoying. I don't like to have to jump to
> > another place to find out that it just calls the read function of the
> > object.
> 
> An argument for the helper is that it eases grepability. Sure you can
> search for "->read" but that's going to turn up all kinds of
> non-clocksource code as well. grep clocksource_read will get you
> exactly what you want.

That would make sense if the clocksource_read calls are littered all
over the kernel source. But they are not, the only user is
timekeeping.c

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   Martin.

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