[PATCH 03/16] lib,treewide: add new match_string() helper/macro

Ardelean, Alexandru alexandru.Ardelean at analog.com
Fri May 10 09:15:27 UTC 2019


On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 16:22 +0300, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> 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.
> 

I should have asked in my previous reply.
Leave this as-is or re-formulate in 2 patches ?

No strong preference from my side.

Thanks
Alex

> Thanks
> Alex
> 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h



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