linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] openpromfs: Adjust three seq_printf() calls in property

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Date:   Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:08:04 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] openpromfs: Adjust three seq_printf() calls in
 property_show()

On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 17:40 +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 17:24:27 +0200
> 
> A bit of information should be put into a sequence.
> Thus improve the execution speed for this data output by better usage
> of corresponding functions.
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

(wasn't Markus perma-banned?)

> diff --git a/fs/openpromfs/inode.c b/fs/openpromfs/inode.c
[]
> @@ -76,14 +76,14 @@ static int property_show(struct seq_file *f, void *v)
>  		while (len > 0) {
>  			int n = strlen(pval);
> 
> -			seq_printf(f, "%s", (char *) pval);
> +			seq_puts(f, (char *) pval);
> 
>  			/* Skip over the NULL byte too.  */
>  			pval += n + 1;
>  			len -= n + 1;
> 
>  			if (len > 0)
> -				seq_printf(f, " + ");
> +				seq_puts(f, " + ");
>  		}
>  	} else {
>  		if (len & 3) {
> @@ -111,8 +111,7 @@ static int property_show(struct seq_file *f, void *v)
>  			}
>  		}
>  	}
> -	seq_printf(f, "\n");
> -
> +	seq_putc(f, '\n');
>  	return 0;
>  }

If this is really useful (and it's really not),
at least change void *pval to char *pval and
remove a bunch of useless casts.