Re: [PATCH 2/4] Two merges very similar functions in bluetooth.c

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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Anderson Lizardo
<anderson.lizardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:35 AM,  <Michal.Labedzki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
>>> IMHO, you should keep str2ba and drop the few occurrences of
>>> strtoba(). Same applies to ba2str/batostr.
>>
>>> strtoba() allocates memory by itself, so if you use it instead, you
>>> need to deallocate memory. str2ba(), on the other hand, uses a buffer
>>> given as argument.
>>
>> These function are similar, but not the same. ba2str/str2ba reverse bdaddr, but
>> batostr/strtoba not. I wrote relevant documentation comments, because names look
>> similar, code look similar, but results are different.
>
> Ok, I confess the function names are confusing. One has to look at
> their implementation to make sure which one to use...

Just one more comment: on your commit description, it may appear that
you are merging the functions, while in fact you are just factoring
out common code. I suggest rewording the message so it makes clear you
are factoring out code.

Regards,
-- 
Anderson Lizardo
OpenBossa Labs - INdT
Manaus - Brazil
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