netdev - Re: [PATCH 03/16] lib,treewide: add new match

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Date:   Wed, 8 May 2019 13:22:03 +0000
From:   "Ardelean, Alexandru" <alexandru.Ardelean@...log.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/16] lib,treewide: add new match_string() helper/macro

On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 15:18 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 04:11:28PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 02:28:29PM +0300, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> > > This change re-introduces `match_string()` as a macro that uses
> > > ARRAY_SIZE() to compute the size of the array.
> > > The macro is added in all the places that do
> > > `match_string(_a, ARRAY_SIZE(_a), s)`, since the change is pretty
> > > straightforward.
> > 
> > Can you split include/linux/ change from the rest?
> 
> That would break the build, why do you want it split out?  This makes
> sense all as a single patch to me.
> 

Not really.
It would be just be the new match_string() helper/macro in a new commit.
And the conversions of the simple users of match_string() (the ones using
ARRAY_SIZE()) in another commit.

Thanks
Alex

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h