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Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2015 12:33:06 -0800
From:	Phil Pokorny <ppokorny@...guincomputing.com>
To:	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	lm-sensors <lm-sensors@...sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/4] kernel.h: add find_closest() macro

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Bartosz Golaszewski
<bgolaszewski@...libre.com> wrote:
>
> Searching for the member of an array closest to 'x' is
> duplicated in several places.
>
> Add two macros that implement this algorithm for arrays
> sorted both in ascending and descending order.

I don't see the point here.  You're not saving any code because your
macros create functions at each invocation site.  And your macro is
more complicated than the code it replaces because it has all the
syntactic cruft to make it adaptable to the different datatypes and
sort orders.

Certainly it is easy to make an off by one mistake in a loop like this
so there might be some small value there, but I'm not sure the
complication is worth that savings for the small number of use points.
Particularly because you're not saving any code.


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