linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] staging: greybus: use inline function for macros

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Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:27:36 +0200
From:   Menna Mahmoud <eng.mennamahmoud.mm@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     outreachy@...ts.linux.dev, johan@...nel.org, elder@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: greybus: use inline function for macros


On ٢٠‏/٣‏/٢٠٢٣ ١٧:٤٢, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 12:32:58PM +0200, Menna Mahmoud wrote:
>> Convert `to_gbphy_dev` and `to_gbphy_driver` macros into a
>> static inline function.
>>
>> it is not great to have macro that use `container_of` macro,
>> because from looking at the definition one cannot tell what type
>> it applies to.
>>
>> One can get the same benefit from an efficiency point of view
>> by making an inline function.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
>> Signed-off-by: Menna Mahmoud <eng.mennamahmoud.mm@...il.com>
>> ---
>> change in v2:
>> 	remove newlines added in previous patch.
>>
>> change in v3:
>> 	fix the patch to be against Greg's tree.
> I am lost in a twisty maze of patches from you for the greybus code that
> all seem alike but are different :(

I am sorry for that.

> Can you send a patch series of the latest changes you have made, as I
> really don't know what is, and is not, the latest versions at all, so
> I'm going to have to drop them all from my review queue right now.


Sure, I will.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h


Thanks,

Menna