netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next V2 1/1] openvswitch: Declare ovs key structures using macros

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Date:   Fri, 8 Feb 2019 09:33:45 +0000
From:   Eli Britstein <elibr@...lanox.com>
To:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     "gvrose8192@...il.com" <gvrose8192@...il.com>,
        "pshelar@....org" <pshelar@....org>,
        "dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next V2 1/1] openvswitch: Declare ovs key
 structures using macros


On 2/8/2019 9:59 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 12:09:00PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Gregory Rose <gvrose8192@...il.com>
>> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 11:41:29 -0800
>>
>>> On 2/3/2019 1:12 AM, Eli Britstein wrote:
>>>> Declare ovs key structures using macros as a pre-step towards to
>>>> enable retrieving fields information, as a work done in proposed
>>>> commit in the OVS tree https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1023406/
>>>> ("odp-util: Do not rewrite fields with the same values as matched"),
>>>> with no functional change.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Eli Britstein <elibr@...lanox.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>
>>> Obscuring the structures with these macros is awful.  I'm opposed but
>>> I see it has already been
>>> accepted upstream so I guess that's that.
>> I am personally in no way obligated to apply this patch to my tree
>> just because "upstream" did, and I absolutely have no plans to do so
>> at this point.
>>
>> This patch is absolutely awful.
> I hate to jump on a bandwagon, but this patch makes the code much
> less readable.

Please review the alternative I have posted:

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2019-February/356000.html