linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 06/15] net: sparx5: add constants to match data

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Message-ID: <20241002073352.43a3afb5@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 07:33:52 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@...rochip.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 06/15] net: sparx5: add constants to match data

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 13:31:32 +0000 Daniel Machon wrote:
> By "type the code out" - are you saying that we should not be using a macro
> for accessing the const at all? and rather just:
> 
>     struct sparx5_consts *consts = sparx5->data->consts;
>     consts->some_var

This.

> or pass in the sparx5 pointer to the macro too, which was the concert that
> Jacob raised.

The implicit arguments are part of the ugliness, and should also go
away. But in this case the entire macro should go.