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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: mcalinux@acc.umu.se, tao@acc.umu.se,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	linux-net@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] more MCA_LEGACY dependencies
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 20:30:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040702183004.GJ28324@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040702130719.GC13384@lorien.prodam>

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:07:19AM -0300, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
>...
> |  static int __init smctr_chk_mca(struct net_device *dev)
> |  {
> | -#ifdef CONFIG_MCA
> | +#ifdef CONFIG_MCA_LEGACY
> |  	struct net_local *tp = netdev_priv(dev);
> |  	int current_slot;
> |  	__u8 r1, r2, r3, r4, r5;
> | @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@
> |  	return (0);
> |  #else
> |  	return (-1);
> | -#endif /* CONFIG_MCA */
> | +#endif /* CONFIG_MCA_LEGACY */
> |  }
> 
>  what about doing things like that for #ifdef/#endif inside
> functions? (not compiled):
>...
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MCA_LEGACY
>  static int __init smctr_chk_mca(struct net_device *dev)
>  {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_MCA
>  	struct net_local *tp = netdev_priv(dev);
>  	int current_slot;
>  	__u8 r1, r2, r3, r4, r5;
>...
> --- a/drivers/net/tokenring/smctr.h	2003-10-08 16:24:14.000000000 -0300
> +++ a~/drivers/net/tokenring/smctr.h	2004-07-02 09:56:56.000000000 -0300
> @@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
>  
>  #ifdef __KERNEL__
>  
> +/* when !CONFIG_MCA_LEGACY */
> +#ifndef CONFIG_MCA_LEGACY
> +static inline smctr_chk_mca(struct net_device *dev) { return (-1); }
> +#endif
> +
>...

What's the advantage of your approach?
All it seems to do is to make the code less readable.

cu
Adrian

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-07-02 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-02  0:25 Adrian Bunk
2004-07-02 13:07 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2004-07-02 18:30   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]

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