> So the main (or only?) purpose of the macro is to save Better to say it saves cutting and pasting, which is a damn good thing -- even if macros are an old fashioned way of doing it. > in terms of functionality I could equivalently call each handlers. But then you would have to call them repeatedly inside a loop and check for errors in the same way as is done in the macro. Not just call the function. On 24 December 2013 13:19, Fred Chou <fred.chou.nd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch > <bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] >> And the macro just avoids to copy-paste identical lines/logic. > > Thank you all for the explanation. Originally I was wondering if there could > be some other reasons. So the main (or only?) purpose of the macro is to > save some typing, and in terms of functionality I could equivalently call > each handlers. > > Fred > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > -- Adrian Ratnapala mobile: +49 1515 277 0000 NGBitS GmbH Rainer Strasse 7 83104 Ostermünchen Web: www.ngbits.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
