Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix copy-paste bug: assign from src struct not dest

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Wed Jan 07 2015 - 17:16:45 EST


On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 20:18 +0100, Giel van Schijndel wrote:

> IMO the aligned block of code has the significant advantage of taking
> advantage of humans' ability to spot things that break a pattern. Which
> in this case becomes *very* visible when properly aligned, because
> without the alignment there is no (visual) pattern (or at least not one
> very suitable for my "visual processing system", I know the same applies
> to at least some others).

Yeah, well, but why even invoke that "visual processing system"?

If you look, for example, at the __skb_clone function it just uses a
macro:

#define C(x) n->x = skb->x

and then

C(len);
C(data_len);

etc.

johannes

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