Re: usbnet private-data accessor functions

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Fri Oct 12 2018 - 11:47:48 EST


On Fr, 2018-10-12 at 10:16 +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> I have been looking at the usbnet drivers and the possibility of some
> code cleanups. One of the things I've found is that changing the way
> the drivers use the private data with the usbnet structure is often
> hand-coded each time is needed.

Where is the improvement? You are just hiding how the data is passed.
It may look more pleasant to you, but that is a subjective impression.
I would suggest that if you want a nicely named way to get at private
data, add a field to the appropriate data structure.

Regards
Oliver