linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/23] seq_file: switch over direct seq_read method calls to seq_read

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Message-ID: <d7c902f9eecffc51f3a5761fa343bedad89dff7e.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:44:12 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/23] seq_file: switch over direct seq_read method
 calls to seq_read_iter

On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 07:56 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 3:50 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> > Do you have a suggestion for an automated replacement which does?
> > I'll happily switch over to that.
> 
> I guess I'd simply find the unique set of cases that occur and create
> a replacement for each manually. A handful of them or so may already
> cover the majority of cases. CC'ing Joe since he deals with this sort
> of stuff all the time.

I do that with a diff and emacs script.

And I'd generally not bother with 80 column rewrapping
here as it both makes a diff harder for not much value and
it's only a few characters added to a few lines that might
now exceed 80 columns.

I presume that clang-format would work well enough too.