Re: [PATCH 16/23] seq_file: switch over direct seq_read method calls to seq_read_iter

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Jul 03 2020 - 03:44:19 EST


On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 07:56 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 3:50 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Do you have a suggestion for an automated replacement which does?
> > I'll happily switch over to that.
>
> I guess I'd simply find the unique set of cases that occur and create
> a replacement for each manually. A handful of them or so may already
> cover the majority of cases. CC'ing Joe since he deals with this sort
> of stuff all the time.

I do that with a diff and emacs script.

And I'd generally not bother with 80 column rewrapping
here as it both makes a diff harder for not much value and
it's only a few characters added to a few lines that might
now exceed 80 columns.

I presume that clang-format would work well enough too.