linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 03/18] rtla: Simplify argument parsing

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Message-ID: <CAAq0SUnszAF8HXK6Knve+V-r97otAxN2FnM-8mNt4Pvh79pFug@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:38:48 -0300
From: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@...hat.com>
To: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@...hat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Tomas Glozar <tglozar@...hat.com>, 
	Crystal Wood <crwood@...hat.com>, Ivan Pravdin <ipravdin.official@...il.com>, 
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, Haiyong Sun <sunhaiyong@...ngson.cn>, 
	Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>, Daniel Wagner <dwagner@...e.de>, 
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...nel.org>, 
	"open list:Real-time Linux Analysis (RTLA) tools" <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	"open list:Real-time Linux Analysis (RTLA) tools" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	"open list:BPF [MISC]:Keyword:(?:b|_)bpf(?:b|_)" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/18] rtla: Simplify argument parsing

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 at 19:25, Wander Lairson Costa <wander@...hat.com> wrote:
> > To simplify and improve the robustness of argument parsing, introduce a
> > new extract_arg() helper macro. This macro extracts the value from a
> > "key=value" pair, making the code more concise and readable.
>
> Would you consider using getsubopt?
>

That's a good idea. But I would like to defer this to a following up patch.

> Costa
>