On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 03:17:28PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 22:06 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > I agree with Michael that tweaking this code to be optimal versus > > > plainly failsafe is a patch for another day. I've taken this one. > > > Thanks Michael. > > > > Too bad, you actually suggested very good solution, it is unclear who > > will now implement it. > > I may do it myself. I've been looking at the code and I don't like the > if construct because I don't feel it conveys the purpose of the code > clearly. Implicit in the if construct is embedded knowledge about > which providers do what. I'd rather have a switch construct on the > index with the flow split to those that have only .dump, those that > have only .doit, and those that have both. The current if doesn't make > it clear that this is how the netlink services are structured. Most probably you are right, I just need to see the code to be sure. The original "if" was outcome of my wrong expectation that someone will help me to modernize IWCM. Such modernization was supposed to remove nasty "|| index .. " checks. So my final goal is to see the following code: if(dump_flag) return do_dump return do_doit Thanks > > -- > Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> > GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD > Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD >
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