Re: hci_usb: remove macro code obfuscation

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Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:51:37 +0300
"Vitaliy Ivanov" <vitalivanov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
 I had trouble figuring out what the code does. atomic_inc/dec
 management is actually pretty simple, but it is needlessly obfuscated
 with macros. Fix that.

 Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>

 I had trouble figuring out what the code does. atomic_inc/dec
 management is actually pretty simple, but it is needlessly obfuscated
 with macros. Fix that.

 Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>

Got it from the first time;)

Do you think that now code looks better? As for me it's not...


Yes, I expect that the original code was easier to work with and it is not
obfuscated I don't think.  Sometimes these things take a few minutes for
new readers to become comfortable with but are good for people who work on
the code regularly.

Although it's a mystery why __pending_tx() and friends

a) have leading underscores and
At the time I wrote it, it made sense (to me :)) but it's been such a long time ago I would not remember. Probably to show that this is something internal and needs to be used with caution.


b) are implemented in cpp, when C is available.

I'm not sure what you mean ? #define vs inline I suppose ?

Max
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