Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v3 8/8] iplink: Reduce number of arguments to iplink_parse()

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 2/26/18 11:20 AM, Serhey Popovych wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:02:06 +0200
>> Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> +struct iplink_parse_args {
>>> +	const char *dev;
>>> +	const char *name;
>>> +	const char *type;
>>> +
>>> +	/* This definitely must be the last one and initialized
>>> +	 * by the caller of iplink_parse() that will initialize rest.
>>> +	 */
>>> +	struct iplink_req *req;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>
>> No control block please.
> Accepted.
> 
>> If you have too many arguments, then that means you need to do
>> some refactoring.
> 
> So using structure as single argument to a function isn't an option?
> 
>>
> 
> 

As I mentioned before, iplink_parse should not be used by vxcan or veth
as they only want a subset of the parsing. Once you take those users
out, iplink_parse becomes local to iplink.c with a single user. In which
case I suspect the compiler will always inline the function so no
refactoring on the number of arguments is needed.