On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 12:10:53PM +0100, Marek Behún wrote: > > I'm not sure it's worth the change :( > > Let's put it another way, your diffstat has 338 insertions and 335 > > deletions. Aka you're saving 3 lines overall. > > With this new approach that doesn't use token concatenation at all, > > you're probably not saving anything at all. > > Also, I'm not sure that you need to make the functions inline. The > > compiler should be smart enough to not generate functions for > > usb_ocp_read_byte etc. You can check with > > "make drivers/net/usb/r8152.lst". > > Vladimir, the purpose of this patch isn't to save lines, but to save us > from always writing MCU_TYPE_USB / MCU_TYPE_PLA. > It just transforms forms of > ocp_read_word(tp, MCU_TYPE_USB, idx); > ocp_write_dword(tp, MCU_TYPE_PLA, idx, val); > into > usb_ocp_read_word(tp, idx); > pla_ocp_write_dword(tp, idx, val); > > The fifth patch of this series saves lines by adding _modify functions, > to transform > val = *_read(idx); > val &= ~clr; > val |= set; > *_write(idx, val); > into > *_modify(idx, clr, set); > So if the point isn't to save lines, then why don't you go for something trivial? static void ocp_modify_byte(struct r8152 *tp, u16 type, u16 index, u8 clr, u8 set) { u8 val = ocp_read_byte(tp, type, index); ocp_write_byte(tp, type, index, (val & ~clr) | set); } static void ocp_modify_word(struct r8152 *tp, u16 type, u16 index, u16 clr, u16 set) { u16 val = ocp_read_word(tp, type, index); ocp_write_word(tp, type, index, (val & ~clr) | set); } static void ocp_modify_dword(struct r8152 *tp, u16 type, u16 index, u32 clr, u32 set) { u32 val = ocp_read_dword(tp, type, index); ocp_write_dword(tp, type, index, (val & ~clr) | set); } #define pla_ocp_read_byte(tp, index) \ ocp_read_byte(tp, MCU_TYPE_PLA, index) #define pla_ocp_write_byte(tp, index, data) \ ocp_write_byte(tp, MCU_TYPE_PLA, index, data) #define pla_ocp_modify_byte(tp, index, clr, set) \ ocp_modify_byte(tp, MCU_TYPE_PLA, index, clr, set) #define pla_ocp_read_word(tp, index) \ ocp_read_word(tp, MCU_TYPE_PLA, index) #define pla_ocp_write_word(tp, index, data) \ ocp_write_word(tp, MCU_TYPE_PLA, index, data) #define pla_ocp_modify_word(tp, index, clr, set) \ ocp_modify_word(tp, MCU_TYPE_PLA, index, clr, set) #define pla_ocp_read_dword(tp, index) \ ocp_read_dword(tp, MCU_TYPE_PLA, index) #define pla_ocp_write_dword(tp, index, data) \ ocp_write_dword(tp, MCU_TYPE_PLA, index, data) #define pla_ocp_modify_dword(tp, index, clr, set) \ ocp_modify_dword(tp, MCU_TYPE_PLA, index, clr, set) #define usb_ocp_read_byte(tp, index) \ ocp_read_byte(tp, MCU_TYPE_USB, index) #define usb_ocp_write_byte(tp, index, data) \ ocp_write_byte(tp, MCU_TYPE_USB, index, data) #define usb_ocp_modify_byte(tp, index, clr, set) \ ocp_modify_byte(tp, MCU_TYPE_USB, index, clr, set) #define usb_ocp_read_word(tp, index) \ ocp_read_word(tp, MCU_TYPE_USB, index) #define usb_ocp_write_word(tp, index, data) \ ocp_write_word(tp, MCU_TYPE_USB, index, data) #define usb_ocp_modify_word(tp, index, clr, set) \ ocp_modify_word(tp, MCU_TYPE_USB, index, clr, set) #define usb_ocp_read_dword(tp, index) \ ocp_read_dword(tp, MCU_TYPE_USB, index) #define usb_ocp_write_dword(tp, index, data) \ ocp_write_dword(tp, MCU_TYPE_USB, index, data) #define usb_ocp_modify_dword(tp, index, clr, set) \ ocp_modify_dword(tp, MCU_TYPE_USB, index, clr, set) To my eyes this is easier to digest. That is, unless you want to go for function pointers and have separate structures for PLA and USB...