Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] tty: TX helpers

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Tue Sep 06 2022 - 07:30:59 EST


On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 12:48:01PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> This series introduces DEFINE_UART_PORT_TX_HELPER +
> DEFINE_UART_PORT_TX_HELPER_LIMITED TX helpers. See PATCH 2/4 for the
> details. Comments welcome.
>
> Then it switches drivers to use them. First, to
> DEFINE_UART_PORT_TX_HELPER() in 3/4 and then
> DEFINE_UART_PORT_TX_HELPER_LIMITED() in 4/4.
>
> The diffstat of patches 3+4 is as follows:
> 26 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 823 deletions(-)
> which appears to be nice.

Not really. This is horrid. Quality can't be measured in LoC (only).

The resulting code is unreadable. And for no good reason.

[ And note that you're "saving" something like 20 lines per driver:

12 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 349 deletions(-)
]

NAK

Johan