Re: [PATCH] add wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() macro

[Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:01:30AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:12:06AM -0500, Dean Nelson wrote:
> 
> > +#define __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive(wq, condition, ret)	\
> > +do {									\
> > +	wait_queue_t __wait;						\
> > +	init_waitqueue_entry(&__wait, current);				\
> > +									\
> > +	add_wait_queue_exclusive(&wq, &__wait);
> > \
> 
> [...]
> 
> Thsi reminds me...
> 
> I really loath all the preprocessor macros.  I know there are plenty
> of this already, but I don't see the advantage of macros over (static)
> inline functions which IMO look cleaner and give gcc some change to
> sanitize what it's looking at without actually having to have it used.
> 
> Is there a reason why we keep doing this?

In this particular case, I was just trying to 'conform' to what I found
in include/linux/wait.h.

If the community would prefer, I can resubmit my patch as an inline
function instead of a macro.

Dean