netdev - Re: [net-next 3/7] ixgbe: Use static inlines instead of macros

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Date:	Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:39:23 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mark.d.rustad@...el.com
Cc:	sfeldma@...ulusnetworks.com, aaron.f.brown@...el.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 3/7] ixgbe: Use static inlines instead of macros

From: "Rustad, Mark D" <mark.d.rustad@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:34:18 +0000

> On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:47 AM, Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 7, 2014, at 11:40 PM, Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@...el.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> From: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@...el.com>
>>> 
>>> -#define IXGBE_WRITE_REG(a, reg, value) writel((value), ((a)->hw_addr + (reg)))
>>> +static inline void IXGBE_WRITE_REG(struct ixgbe_hw *hw, u32 reg, u32 value)
>> 
>> Bummer, now you have a all-caps func name.
> 
> Agreed, but this is actually a fairly common condition among drivers that used to use macros. It isn't perfect, but at least it is moving in the right direction. I'd rather leave the case change for a later patch series that does only that or has some reason to touch all of the register access sites.
> 
> At least the new accessor I introduced is lower case. :-)

Please address this feedback, all caps function names are really not
appropriate.
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