linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH vRFC 5/8] firmware: Convert minor inline function to macro

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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:22:18 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@...cinc.com>
Cc: mcgrof@...nel.org, russ.weight@...ux.dev, rafael@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH vRFC 5/8] firmware: Convert minor inline function to macro

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:30:30PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> Convert to_fw_priv() inline function to macro.

Why?

> No functional change.

You lost good error messages if you pass in the wrong pointer :(

There is a good reason to convert this type of function to a macro, but
you aren't using that here, so I'm not going to tell you why it would be
ok :)

thanks,

greg k-h