netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jul 2016 17:14:11 +0100
From:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
CC:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>, Juergen Gross <JGross@...e.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	<david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf()
 over xenbus_gather()

On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 06:28:58AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> For single items being collected this should be preferred as being more
> typesafe (as the compiler can check format string and to-be-written-to
> variable match) and more efficient (requiring one less parameter to be
> passed).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>