netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v3 8/8] iplink: Reduce number of arguments to iplink

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Date:   Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:06:38 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v3 8/8] iplink: Reduce number of arguments
 to iplink_parse()

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:02:06 +0200
Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@...il.com> wrote:

> +struct iplink_parse_args {
> +	const char *dev;
> +	const char *name;
> +	const char *type;
> +
> +	/* This definitely must be the last one and initialized
> +	 * by the caller of iplink_parse() that will initialize rest.
> +	 */
> +	struct iplink_req *req;
> +};
> +

No control block please.
If you have too many arguments, then that means you need to do
some refactoring.