linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] staging: tidspbridge: remove desgin-by-contract macros

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Date:	Tue, 7 Feb 2012 02:02:56 +0200
From:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
To:	Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal 
	<vjaquez@...lia.com>
Cc:	Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.ramirez@...com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] staging: tidspbridge: remove desgin-by-contract macros

2012/2/7 Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal <vjaquez@...lia.com>:
> These patches removes all the design-by-contract (DBC) macros in the
> tidspbridge.
>
> Also it removes the config option CONFIG_TIDSPBRIDGE_DEBUG.
>
> The patches are applied above these submitted patches:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1246081
>
> The main reasons to remove these DBC macros are
>
> * The kernel in general doesn't follow the DBC approach
>
> * They only provide a needless verbosity, since they are available only
>  when CONFIG_TIDSPBRIDGE_DEBUG is enabled. If they were useful they
>  should be left for the dynamic debugging always. So, if they are not
>  used, is dead code at the end, and should be removed.
>
> * Deleting them means less code to maintain
>
> As the Emperor Joseph II told to Mozart in the motion picture Amadeus:
> "It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's
> all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect."

The whole series is fine by me :)

Even the warnings that don't depend on DEBUG have been neglected
anyway =/ Will send some patches for a few of them soon.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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