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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] Fix copy-paste bug: assign from src struct not dest
On 01/07/15 23:16, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 20:18 +0100, Giel van Schijndel wrote:
>
>> IMO the aligned block of code has the significant advantage of taking
>> advantage of humans' ability to spot things that break a pattern. Which
>> in this case becomes *very* visible when properly aligned, because
>> without the alignment there is no (visual) pattern (or at least not one
>> very suitable for my "visual processing system", I know the same applies
>> to at least some others).
>
> Yeah, well, but why even invoke that "visual processing system"?
>
> If you look, for example, at the __skb_clone function it just uses a
> macro:
>
> #define C(x) n->x = skb->x

This requires fixed names so I generally prefer to add them:

#define C(d, s, f) (d)->f = (s)->f

> and then
>
> C(len);
> C(data_len);

C(acx, conf, window_size);
C(acx, conf, increase_time);

Regards,
Arend

>
> etc.
>
> johannes
>
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