linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] scsi: ufs: Remove stringize operator '#' restriction

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Date:   Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:46:30 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Bean Huo <huobean@...il.com>, alim.akhtar@...sung.com,
        avri.altman@....com, asutoshd@...eaurora.org, jejb@...ux.ibm.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, stanley.chu@...iatek.com,
        beanhuo@...ron.com, bvanassche@....org, tomas.winkler@...el.com,
        cang@...eaurora.org, rostedt@...dmis.org
Cc:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] scsi: ufs: Remove stringize operator '#'
 restriction

On Mon, 2020-12-14 at 17:14 +0100, Bean Huo wrote:
> From: Bean Huo <beanhuo@...ron.com>
> 
> Current EM macro definition, we use stringize operator '#', which turns
> the argument it precedes into a quoted string. Thus requires the symbol
> of __print_symbolic() should be the string corresponding to the name of
> the enum.
> 
> However, we have other cases, the symbol and enum name are not the same,
> we can redefine EM/EMe, but there will introduce some redundant codes.
> This patch is to remove this restriction, let others reuse the current
> EM/EMe definition.

I think the other way (adding new definitions for the cases when the
name and string are different) is less error prone.

> diff --git a/include/trace/events/ufs.h b/include/trace/events/ufs.h
[]
> +#define UFS_LINK_STATES						\
> +	EM(UIC_LINK_OFF_STATE, "UIC_LINK_OFF_STATE")		\
> +	EM(UIC_LINK_ACTIVE_STATE, "UIC_LINK_ACTIVE_STATE,")	\

For instance:

Like here where you added an unnecessary and unwanted comma