Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] xen: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Fri Jul 08 2016 - 11:06:45 EST


>>> On 08.07.16 at 16:17, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 06:21:52AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> For single items being collected this should be preferred as being more
>> typesafe (as the compiler can check format string and to-be-written-to
>> variable match) and more efficient (requiring one less parameter to be
>> passed).
>>
>> 1: xenbus: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
>> 2: xen-blkback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
>> 3: xen-blkfront: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
>> 4: xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v2: Avoid commit messages to continue from subjects. Group into a series.
>
> To confuse this, Roger and I are the block sub-maintainers, which
> when we are happy, I send to Jens, while the rest go through Boris,David,
> and Juergen.

Which is why originally I had sent all of these separately. Yet David
was pretty unhappy about that.

Jan