Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] bonding: simple macro cleanup

[Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:08:19PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>From: Veaceslav Falico
>> Hi,
>>
>> That's a trivial patchset that tries to unify the macro usage of bonding
>> modes. I've split it into two approaches - either BOND_*, which takes
>> bonding struct as a param, or MODE_*, which takes the mode itself. Also,
>> introduce BOND_MODE(bond) instead of ugly bond->params.mode.
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>I'm not sure these are improvements....
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>I thought that netdev (in particular) preferred static inline functions
>to #defines - and especially #defines that expand their argument(s)
>more than once.

There's only one static inline function removal - which was completely
different from the usual macros (bond_is_lb()). Other macros are just
renames to quicker understand the code.

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>IMHO Simple access functions are just a PITA when reading code since
>they cause the reader to go off somewhere and look up the definition.

I can make them either way, I've made this patchset while doing other
patchset, and the basic idea was that currently the usage of these macros
is quite illogical - some take bond as an argument, some the mode, and
there's a function that is a macro...

Anyway, I don't have a strong feeling either way, so if people think that
it's better the way it is - I'm ok with that.

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>	David
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