Re: [PATCH 02/31] usb: usbssp: Added some decoding functions.

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 08:48:43AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 06:57:35PM +0100, Pawel Laszczak wrote:
> >> This patch add additional functions that converts some fields to string.
> >> 
> >> For example function usbssp_trb_comp_code_string take completion
> >> code value and return string describing completion code.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Pawel Laszczak <pawell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/usb/usbssp/gadget.h | 580 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 580 insertions(+)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbssp/gadget.h b/drivers/usb/usbssp/gadget.h
> >> index 49e7271187cc..b5c17603af78 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/usb/usbssp/gadget.h
> >> +++ b/drivers/usb/usbssp/gadget.h
> >> @@ -930,6 +930,73 @@ struct usbssp_transfer_event {
> >>  #define COMP_UNDEFINED_ERROR			33
> >>  #define COMP_INVALID_STREAM_ID_ERROR		34
> >>  
> >> +static inline const char *usbssp_trb_comp_code_string(u8 status)
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >
> > You have _giant_ inline functions here, why?
> >
> > Please just put this all in a .c file and let the linker properly handle
> > things.  You do not want to duplicate all of these crazy strings all
> > over the place where ever you call these functions.
> >
> > And I am guessing this is only for some sort of "debugging" mode?  If
> > so, shouldn't there be a way to not even build this in?  Some systems
> > are very space constrained...
> 
> many of them seem to be a straight copy from xhci.

Which doesn't mean it's a great model to copy :)

Let's learn from our past mistakes, having had to try to slim down a
kernel for a limited memory system is a chore that no one should have to
manually hack up the source tree just to accomplish it.

thanks,

greg k-h