Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] x86/boot: Add acpitb.c to parse acpi tables

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 05:36:38PM +0800, Chao Fan wrote:
> Prefer to compile out entire functions, rather than portions of functions or
> portions of expressions.  Rather than putting an ifdef in an expression, factor
> out part or all of the expression into a separate helper function and apply the
> conditional to that function.
> 
> So I am puzzled. If my understanding is wrong, please let me know.

If you do it the way I suggested, you simply have one ifdeffery branch
less. And ifdeffery is ugly. So less clutter. Also, this way you do
compile out entire functions too.

HTH.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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