Re: [PATCH] decnet: remove macro-local declarations

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Thu Nov 05 2015 - 15:08:26 EST


On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, David Miller wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:18:16 +0100
>
> > Move the variable declarations from the for_nexthops macro to the
> > surrounding context, so that it is clear where these variables are
> > declared. This also makes it possible to remove the endfor_nexthops macro.
> >
> > This change adds new arguments to the macro for_nexthops. They are ordered
> > such that a pointer to the referenced object comes first, the index in the
> > list comes next, and the list itself comes last, roughly in analogy with
> > the list_for_each macros.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > This patch takes care of a single file, where the macros are defined
> > locally. If the basic transformation looks OK, I will change the other
> > files that either likewise define their own macros or use the macros in
> > net/mpls/internal.h. The potentially affected files are:
> ...
>
> This looks fine to me.

Would it be preferable to remove the macro entirely and inline the for
loop header?

julia

> Please resubmit this when net-next opens back up, which should be
> shortly after -rc1.
>
> Thanks.
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