linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] tty: serial: introduce transmit helper generators

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Message-ID: <YxGTXK452NwcQEGC@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Sep 2022 07:23:40 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] tty: serial: introduce transmit helper generators

On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 07:16:58AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 01. 09. 22, 14:25, Greg KH wrote:
> > Much nicer, but:
> > 
> > > +#define __DEFINE_UART_PORT_TX_HELPER(name, port, ch, tx_ready, put_char,  \
> > > +		tx_done, for_test, for_post, ...)			  \
> > 
> > Do you really need "port" and "ch" as part of this macro?  You always
> > set that to the same thing in your patches, so is it really needed?
> 
> Not really, just to make obvious that those are the names that can be used
> in tx_ready, put_char... I can remove it, if you prefer, of course.

I'd recommend just removing it as it's a hard macro to read as-is.  That
would make it a bit more simple as then you are just passing in the name
and the callback functions, which makes a bit more sense to me.

thanks,

greg k-h