linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch/arm/mach-pxa/stargate2.c: use ARRAY_AND

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Message-ID: <52073E90.2030008@bfs.de>
Date:	Sun, 11 Aug 2013 09:34:40 +0200
From:	walter harms <wharms@....de>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
CC:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...il.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/arm/mach-pxa/stargate2.c: use ARRAY_AND_SIZE consistently



Am 11.08.2013 07:48, schrieb Julia Lawall:
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
>> ARRAY_AND_SIZE() macro is horrible, and I would like it if it were
>> removed.  What I meant before was just that probably people will
>> probably complain if we try to remove it.
> 
> Well, I could either wait for someone to defend it, or send a patch 
> getting rid of it and see what happens...  I can't see what could go wrong 
> with
> 
> f(...,
> - ARRAY_AND_SIZE(e)
> + e, ARRAY_SIZE(e)
>   , ...)
> 
> so it should be an easy patch to create.
> 


if it is not to much work, send a patch to get rid of it.
It seems all agree that the disadvantages outweighs it
advantages.

just my 2 cents,
 wh


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