linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 1/6] rtla/osnoise: Add helper functions to manipulate osnoise/options

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Message-ID: <20230201142530.61b5ac00@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Wed, 1 Feb 2023 14:25:30 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/6] rtla/osnoise: Add helper functions to manipulate
 osnoise/options

On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:30:02 +0100
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...nel.org> wrote:

> +#define	OSNOISE_OPTION(name, option_str)						\
> +static int osnoise_get_##name(struct osnoise_context *context)				\
> +{											\
> +	if (context->opt_##name != OSNOISE_OPTION_INIT_VAL)				\
> +		return context->opt_##name;						\
> +											\
> +	if (context->orig_opt_##name != OSNOISE_OPTION_INIT_VAL)			\
> +		return context->orig_opt_##name;					\
> +											\
> +	context->orig_opt_##name = osnoise_options_get_option(option_str);		\
> +											\
> +	return context->orig_opt_##name;						\
> +}											\
> +											\

What you could have done is not make this into a super macro (as there's
only one instance of it). And then add a patch that turns it into this
macro as the first patch of a series that adds another user.

Because I don't understand why this exists when it only has one user.

-- Steve