Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] block: add helper function to determine if a BDS is in a chain

[Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:16:27AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/14/2014 09:20 PM, Jeff Cody wrote:
> > This is a small helper function, to determine if 'base' is in the
> > chain of BlockDriverState 'top'.  It returns true if it is in the chain,
> > and false otherwise.
> > 
> > If either argument is NULL, it will also return false.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  block.c               | 9 +++++++++
> >  include/block/block.h | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > 
> 
> >  
> > +bool bdrv_is_in_chain(BlockDriverState *top, BlockDriverState *base)
> 
> No doc comments inline, and not everyone has the commit message handy.
> Which means someone trying to learn what this command does has to read
> the function.  Maybe copy the commit message into code comments as well.
> 

OK

> Bikeshedding: If I'm reading code, and see bdrv_is_in_chain(a, b), my
> first inclination would be to read that as "return true if node a is in
> chain b".  But if I were to see bdrv_chain_contains(a, b), I would parse
> that as "return true if chain a contains node b".  I think you either
> want to swap argument order, or rename the function.

I like the bdrv_chain_contains() as the function name, it is clearer.
I'll use that.

> 
> The function itself looks useful, though, once we agree on the naming.
>