Re: static key arrays?

[Baron, Jason]

Hi,

Perhaps a bit wasteful, but I think you could have 2 arrays- an all true one and an all false one. And then just pick the right one at compile time? This also needs to be addressed for sched_feat() as well...

Thanks,

-Jason



> On Sep 11, 2015, at 5:46 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter, Jason, all,
> 
> Per the recent type-safe API changes, it's no longer easy to generate
> an array of static keys. I was planning to do that for a set of very
> unlikely debug options.
> 
> It sounds like you're planning to remove the previous API entirely at
> some point, so I'm wondering if you've given any thought to this
> possibility.
> 
> I briefly played with the idea of adding a macro for that, but the
> necessary "REPEAT(n, d)" macro for the initialisation becomes ugly
> pretty quickly and, afaict, needs to have enough macros for the maximum
> expected numbers.
> 
> For the case I was looking at it's static_key_false so a zero
> -initialized array would be sufficient, but that can't be done easily
> with a static_key_true.
> 
> johannes
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