Re: [PATCH 1/5] iio: buffer: use permission specific variants of DEVICE_ATTR

From: Lars-Peter Clausen
Date: Sat Jan 06 2018 - 07:50:41 EST


On 01/06/2018 01:35 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 20:07:14 +0530
> Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This is a clean-up patch which replaces DEVICE_ATTR macro with the file
>> permission specific DEVICE_ATTR_{RO/WO/RW} macros for compaction and
>> readability. Done using coccinelle.
>
> Hmm. I'll be honest, I personally really dislike these macros.
> They absolutely don't help with readability because they obscure
> the connection between the attributes being created and their callbacks.
> Short is not the same as more readable.

FWIW fully agreed.