Re: [PATCH v12 01/16] tracing: Use str_has_prefix() in synth_event_create()

[Tom Zanussi]

Hi Joe,

On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 20:59 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 16:05 -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> > Since we now have a str_has_prefix() that returns the length, we
> > can
> > use that instead of explicitly calculating it.
> 
> []
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> 
> []
> > @@ -1200,8 +1200,7 @@ static int synth_event_create(int argc, const
> > char **argv)
> >  
> >  	/* This interface accepts group name prefix */
> >  	if (strchr(name, '/')) {
> > -		len = sizeof(SYNTH_SYSTEM "/") - 1;
> > -		if (strncmp(name, SYNTH_SYSTEM "/", len))
> > +		if ((len = str_has_prefix(name, SYNTH_SYSTEM "/")) ==
> > 0)
> 
> Since this is a single test, and not multiple if/else if
> blocks, I believe this would read better on two lines
> 
> 		len = str_has_prefix(name, SYNTH_SYSTEM "/");
> 		if (len == 0)
> 
> >  			return -EINVAL;
> >  		name += len;
> >  	}
> 

And I was so happy to have finally found a legitimate reason to put an
assignment inside an if statement, sigh.  OK, I'll change it.  ;-)

Thanks,

Tom