On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:46 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2/19/19 10:34 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 12:02 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > <snip> > >> I have not read through the patches in any detail. I have read some of > >> the code to try to understand the patches to the devicetree unit tests. > >> So that may limit how valid my comments below are. > > > > No problem. > > > >> > >> I found the code difficult to read in places where it should have been > >> much simpler to read. Structuring the code in a pseudo object oriented > >> style meant that everywhere in a code path that I encountered a dynamic > >> function call, I had to go find where that dynamic function call was > >> initialized (and being the cautious person that I am, verify that > >> no where else was the value of that dynamic function call). With > >> primitive vi and tags, that search would have instead just been a > >> simple key press (or at worst a few keys) if hard coded function > >> calls were done instead of dynamic function calls. In the code paths > >> that I looked at, I did not see any case of a dynamic function being > >> anything other than the value it was originally initialized as. > >> There may be such cases, I did not read the entire patch set. There > >> may also be cases envisioned in the architects mind of how this > >> flexibility may be of future value. Dunno. > > > > Yeah, a lot of it is intended to make architecture specific > > implementations and some other future work easier. Some of it is also > > for testing purposes. Admittedly some is for neither reason, but given > > the heavy usage elsewhere, I figured there was no harm since it was > > all private internal usage anyway. > > > > Increasing the cost for me (and all the other potential code readers) > to read the code is harm. You are right. I like the object oriented C style; I didn't think it hurt readability. In any case, I will go through and replace instances where I am not using it for one of the above reasons.
