Re: [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: (w83627ehf) Fix writing into fan_stop_time for NCT6775F/NCT6776F

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:35:02 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 13:23 -0400, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > As a side note, someone's got to explain to me why these functions are
> > macro-generated when the macro is called only once. It would be a good
> > idea to unfold that code to make it easier to read.
> > 
> I don't know. Historic, maybe ?

Certainly. Probably the driver originally had more attributes but they
did not make it upstream.

> I thought about unfolding it, but
> concluded that it would not be appropriate to do that for a bug fix.

I agree, that would be a separate patch. If you have time and
interest... (I lack the former.)

> I don't like those macro functions anyway ...

Nobody does. They were needed before the introduction of struct
sensor_device_attribute, what, 7 years ago? We should no longer see
anything like that in our drivers these days, but...

-- 
Jean Delvare

_______________________________________________
lm-sensors mailing list
lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux Hardware Monitoring]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Yosemite Backpacking]

  Powered by Linux