Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()

From: "Jan Beulich" Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:45:53 -0700 > For single items being collected this should be preferred as being more > typesafe (as the compiler can check format string and to-be-written-to > variable match) and more efficient (requiring one less parameter to be

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()

> -Original Message- > From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeul...@suse.com] > Sent: 08 November 2016 07:46 > To: Paul Durrant ; Wei Liu > Cc: xen-devel ; net...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: [PATCH v3] xen-netback: prefer

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()

For single items being collected this should be preferred as being more typesafe (as the compiler can check format string and to-be-written-to variable match) and more efficient (requiring one less parameter to be passed). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- v3: For consistency