netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next V2 1/1] openvswitch: Declare ovs key structures using macros

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Date:   Fri, 8 Feb 2019 08:59:04 +0100
From:   Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     gvrose8192@...il.com, elibr@...lanox.com, pshelar@....org,
        dev@...nvswitch.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next V2 1/1] openvswitch: Declare ovs key
 structures using macros

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 12:09:00PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Gregory Rose <gvrose8192@...il.com>
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 11:41:29 -0800
> 
> > 
> > On 2/3/2019 1:12 AM, Eli Britstein wrote:
> >> Declare ovs key structures using macros as a pre-step towards to
> >> enable retrieving fields information, as a work done in proposed
> >> commit in the OVS tree https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1023406/
> >> ("odp-util: Do not rewrite fields with the same values as matched"),
> >> with no functional change.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eli Britstein <elibr@...lanox.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>
> > 
> > Obscuring the structures with these macros is awful.  I'm opposed but
> > I see it has already been
> > accepted upstream so I guess that's that.
> 
> I am personally in no way obligated to apply this patch to my tree
> just because "upstream" did, and I absolutely have no plans to do so
> at this point.
> 
> This patch is absolutely awful.

I hate to jump on a bandwagon, but this patch makes the code much
less readable.