On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 16:06 +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:40:12PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > Change LOOPBACK MULTICAST LOCAL_MCAST BADCLASS and ZERONET > > macros to inline functions ipv4_is_<type>(__be32 addr) > > Adds some type safety and arguably some readability > > No change in compiled image size > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I can understand the motivation for moving the functionality into > inline functions in order to get some type safety. But what is > the motivation for changing all the macro calls to function calls, > when you have set up the marcos to call the appropriate functions?
It's just a sequence that allows the kernel to compile. I expect to remove the macros when the other callsites, drivers/infiniband and drivers/parisc, are converted. > Surely if you want to do that you should just ditch the marcos all > together. Perhaps I am missing a patch? That's what I'd like to do but in sequence. David Miller can reasonably accept the net changes, but I'm not too sure he can accept the drivers changes. If/when this change is accepted and patches for drivers are accepted, I'll submit a patch to remove the macros. > Also, as the function names are longer than the macro name > you are creating lines that are > 80 columns wide that used > not to be in that state. For my eyes that reduced readability > (substantially). David? You want a patch for that too? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
