linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] xen: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus

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Message-Id: <577FDD9C02000078000FCBEB@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
Date:	Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:06:36 -0600
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc:	<david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
	<boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>, "Juergen Gross" <JGross@...e.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] xen: prefer xenbus_scanf() over
 xenbus_gather()

>>> On 08.07.16 at 16:17, <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 06:21:52AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> For single items being collected this should be preferred as being more
>> typesafe (as the compiler can check format string and to-be-written-to
>> variable match) and more efficient (requiring one less parameter to be
>> passed).
>> 
>> 1: xenbus: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
>> 2: xen-blkback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
>> 3: xen-blkfront: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
>> 4: xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
>> ---
>> v2: Avoid commit messages to continue from subjects. Group into a series.
> 
> To confuse this, Roger and I are the block sub-maintainers, which
> when we are happy, I send to Jens, while the rest go through Boris,David, 
> and Juergen.

Which is why originally I had sent all of these separately. Yet David
was pretty unhappy about that.

Jan