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From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/6] sf: Update read/write command macros
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:13:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d2jmaotq.fsf@lamuella.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD6G_RSYvJ+yp9eaEFK=iuDqHwxmumASWW3ALwry5FROpr9OEQ@mail.gmail.com> (Jagan Teki's message of "Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:15:33 +0530")

Hi Jagan,

> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
>> On Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 09:06:31 PM, Jagannadha
>> Sutradharudu Teki
>> wrote:
>>> - Used readable names for read/write command macros
>>> - Added comments for the same
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna@xilinx.com>
>>> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
>>> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
>>
>> Does this patch have any impact other than making the code harder to
>> understand
>> ? :-(
>>
>> What's the rationale for making the code more cryptic ?
>
> No issues I guess with the readability as each macro we can easily
> understand.
> like CMD_RD_QUAD --> command_read_quad
>       CMD_WR_PAGE --> command_write_page_program
>
> And this will minimize the macro length - good for in coding and more over
> description is added in drivers/mtd/spi/sf_internal.h anyway.

Again I agree with Marek that readability of code is more important than
saving a few characters while coding.  This is especially true as
editors can support you in coding (Emacs has lots of packages to help
here for example).

Cheers
  Detlev

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-20 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1390075593-11226-1-git-send-email-jaganna@xilinx.com>
2014-01-18 20:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] sf: ops: Squash the malloc+memset combo Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
2014-01-18 20:34   ` Marek Vasut
2014-01-18 20:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/6] sf: Optimize flash features code Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
2014-01-18 20:39   ` Marek Vasut
2014-01-18 20:51     ` Jagan Teki
2014-01-20 13:19       ` Marek Vasut
2014-01-20 13:32         ` Jagan Teki
2014-01-20 23:01           ` Marek Vasut
2014-01-21  7:39             ` Jagan Teki
2014-01-21  7:45               ` Jagan Teki
2014-01-21 17:48                 ` Marek Vasut
2014-01-18 20:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/6] sf: Renames on dual_flash stuff Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
2014-01-18 20:37   ` Marek Vasut
2014-01-18 20:49     ` Jagan Teki
2014-01-20 13:16       ` Marek Vasut
2014-01-20 13:35         ` Jagan Teki
2014-01-18 20:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/6] sf: Update read/write command macros Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
2014-01-18 20:36   ` Marek Vasut
2014-01-18 20:45     ` Jagan Teki
2014-01-20 11:13       ` Detlev Zundel [this message]
2014-01-20 11:46         ` Jagan Teki
2014-01-20 13:06           ` Marek Vasut
2014-01-20 13:10             ` Jagan Teki
2014-01-20 13:13               ` Jagan Teki
2014-01-20 14:33           ` Detlev Zundel
2014-01-18 20:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/6] sf: Minor macro cleanups Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
2014-01-18 20:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/6] sf: Update bank configuration Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki

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