linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v2] ath10k: move code from parameter list into a function

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:15:26 +0100
From:	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Bj??rn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>,
	Jeff Haran <Jeff.Haran@...rix.com>,
	Pat Erley <pat-lkml@...ey.org>, ath10k@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] ath10k: move code from parameter list into a
	function

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Johannes Berg wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 15:01 -0400, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > Putting code into the parameter list of wait_event_timeout() might be
> > legal C-code but not really readable - the "inline" code is simply
> > moved into a function and that passed to wait_event_timeout() as the
> > condition.
> 
> Arguably, that's even more unreadable since if you don't know this macro
> well you might assume the function is called only once, which is clearly
> not true...
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to this change, but if you ask me
> it's not completely clear that this makes it more readable.
>
I'm not into this long enough to say what is better and if the consensus
is that this patch is no more readable than the original code
and no more maintainable either, then it is not worth the effort.

so thanks for your comments!

thx!
hofrat 
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/