Re: [PATCH v3 07/14] software_node: Add support for fwnode_graph*() family of functions

[Daniel Scally]

Hi Sakari

On 28/12/2020 16:41, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 02:21:15PM +0000, Daniel Scally wrote:
>> Hi Andy, Laurent
>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 2:55 PM Laurent Pinchart
>>> <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 02:24:12PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 3:14 AM Daniel Scally wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>>>> +               if (!strncmp(to_swnode(port)->node->name, "port@",
>>>>>
>>>>> You may use here corresponding _FMT macro.
>>>>>
>>>>>> +                            FWNODE_GRAPH_PORT_NAME_PREFIX_LEN))
>>>>>> +                       return port;
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>>>> +       /* Ports have naming style "port@n", we need to select the n */
>>>>>
>>>>>> +       ret = kstrtou32(swnode->parent->node->name + FWNODE_GRAPH_PORT_NAME_PREFIX_LEN,
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe a temporary variable?
>>>>>
>>>>>   unsigned int prefix_len = FWNODE_GRAPH_PORT_NAME_PREFIX_LEN;
>>>>>   ...
>>>>>   ret = kstrtou32(swnode->parent->node->name + prefix_len,
>>>>
>>>> Honestly I'm wondering if those macros don't hinder readability. I'd
>>>> rather write
>>>>
>>>>         + strlen("port@")
>>>
>>> Works for me, since the compiler optimizes this away to be a plain constant.
>>
>> Well, how about instead of the LEN macro, we have:
>>
>> #define FWNODE_GRAPH_PORT_NAME_PREFIX	"port@"
>> #define FWNODE_GRAPH_PORT_NAME_FMT FWNODE_GRAPH_PORT_NAME_PREFIX "%u"
>>
>> And then it's still maintainable in one place but (I think) slightly
>> less clunky, since we can do strlen(FWNODE_GRAPH_PORT_NAME_PREFIX)
>>
>> Or we can do strlen("port@"), I'm good either way :)
> 
> I'd be in favour of using strlen("port@") here.
> 
> At least for now. I think refactoring the use of such strings could be a
> separate set at another time, if that's seen as the way to go.

Alright - thanks. In that case I'll switch to strlen("port@0"), and
FWNODE_GRAPH_PORT_NAME_LEN can be dropped then I think.