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Re: [PATCH 11/16] ath9k: Remove "OS_" prefixes in macros.

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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:44:49PM -0700, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 18:23 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 22:47 -0700, lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >> From: Sujith Manoharan <smanoharan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.h
> > >> index 6fa1eb6..c3294c0 100644
> > >> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.h
> > >> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.h
> > >> @@ -622,17 +622,15 @@ struct hal_country_entry {
> > >>
> > >>  #define SM(_v, _f)  (((_v) << _f##_S) & _f)
> > >>  #define MS(_v, _f)  (((_v) & _f) >> _f##_S)
> > >> -#define OS_REG_RMW(_a, _r, _set, _clr)    \
> > >> +#define REG_RMW(_a, _r, _set, _clr)    \
> > >>       REG_WRITE(_a, _r, (REG_READ(_a, _r) & ~(_clr)) | (_set))
> > >
> > > I think these are pretty good candidates for inline functions.  I'm not
> > > sure removing "OS_" is a useful intermediate step.  It's better to keep
> > > such massive changes to the minimum to avoid potential conflicts with
> > > other patches.
> >
> > This was done in response to Johannes comments. This can be moved to
> > inline though.
> 
> It would be really nice.  Explicit return types tend to unmask some
> issues in the calling code, if there are any.
> 
> I don't care if you are going to change the macros/functions themselves
> in many steps, but let's avoid the need to rename all callers again.

Agreed.

  Luis
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