linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] genirq/irqdomain: Clean code for __irq_domain

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Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 12:22:12 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@...wei.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genirq/irqdomain: Clean code for __irq_domain_create()

On Tue, May 07 2024 at 09:22, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
> On 2024/5/7 2:01, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> +out:
>>> +	domain->flags |= IRQ_DOMAIN_NAME_ALLOCATED;
>>> +	return 0;
>> 
>> This function is horrible. The only shared thing here is the
>> domain->flags manipulation. I'm not seeing how this is an improvement.
>
> Yes, the IRQ_DOMAIN_NAME_ALLOCATED flag is shared, the purpose of this
> change is to make the code that allocates the domain name in the
> __irq_domain_create() function look like it doesn't take up too much
> space, so it looks cleaner.

I'm failing to see the cleaner. All this does is shuffling code around
for no reason.

Thanks,

        tglx