linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH (rev 2)] cxacru: Cleanup sysfs attribute code

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Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:50:28 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@...h.u-psud.fr>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH (rev 2)] cxacru: Cleanup sysfs attribute code

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:41:20 +0100 Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu> wrote:

> This changes the format of unknown status values to be less verbose and 
> uses an array instead of several different snprintf calls. Since only 
> enum values are assigned to it, poll_state is changed from int to enum. 
> Use abs() for dB values instead of two almost identical return lines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> Cc: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@...h.u-psud.fr>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>
> ...
>  
>  static ssize_t cxacru_sysfs_showattr_bool(u32 value, char *buf)
>  {
> -	switch (value) {
> -	case 0: return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "no\n");
> -	case 1: return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "yes\n");
> -	default: return 0;
> -	}
> +	static char *str[] = { "no", "yes" };
> +	if (unlikely(value >= ARRAY_SIZE(str)))
> +		return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%u\n", value);
> +	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", str[value]);
>  }

Should a bool be displayed as "true" or "false"?

>  static ssize_t cxacru_sysfs_showattr_LINK(u32 value, char *buf)
>  {
>
> ...
>
> +		return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%u\n", value);
>  }

To be completely pedantic: we shouldn't be printing u32's with %u.  Because
%u assumes that u32 is implemented as unsigned int.  Only it's an opaque
type and we don't know what actual C type the architecture chose to use.

It happens to work OK on all architectures and I expect it always will, so
no change is needed, but there you have it.

u64's and %llu _are_ incompatible on some architectures and I get to fix
that about 1000000 times.

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