netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] net: macb: Clean up macb

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Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:24:50 +0200
From:   Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>
To:     Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@...o.com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] net: macb: Clean up macb_validate

On 12/10/2021 at 10:33, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> Hello Sean,
> 
> Quoting Sean Anderson (2021-10-11 18:55:16)
>> As the number of interfaces grows, the number of if statements grows
>> ever more unweildy. Clean everything up a bit by using a switch
>> statement. No functional change intended.
> 
> I'm not 100% convinced this makes macb_validate more readable: there are
> lots of conditions, and jumps, in the switch.

I agree with Antoine that the result is not much more readable.

Regards,
   Nicolas

> Maybe you could try a mixed approach; keeping the invalid modes checks
> (bitmap_zero) at the beginning and once we know the mode is valid using
> a switch statement. That might make it easier to read as this should
> remove lots of conditionals. (We'll still have the one/_NA checks
> though).
> 
> (Also having patch 1 first will improve things).
> 
> Thanks,
> Antoine
> 


-- 
Nicolas Ferre