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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions•net>
To: Giel van Schijndel <me@mortis•eu>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail•com>,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora•org>,
	Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery•com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver•com>,
	Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery•com>,
	"open list:TI WILINK WIRELES..." <linux-wireless@vger•kernel.org>,
	"open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix copy-paste bug: assign from src struct not dest
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 23:16:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1420668978.3407.28.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150107191836.GA18978@salidar.dom.custoft.eu>

On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 20:18 +0100, Giel van Schijndel wrote:

> IMO the aligned block of code has the significant advantage of taking
> advantage of humans' ability to spot things that break a pattern. Which
> in this case becomes *very* visible when properly aligned, because
> without the alignment there is no (visual) pattern (or at least not one
> very suitable for my "visual processing system", I know the same applies
> to at least some others).

Yeah, well, but why even invoke that "visual processing system"?

If you look, for example, at the __skb_clone function it just uses a
macro:

#define C(x) n->x = skb->x

and then

	C(len);
	C(data_len);

etc.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-07 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-04 18:00 [PATCH 1/2] Align member-assigns in a structure-copy block Giel van Schijndel
2015-01-04 18:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] Fix copy-paste bug: assign from src struct not dest Giel van Schijndel
2015-01-04 23:02   ` Giel van Schijndel
2015-01-05  9:54   ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-07 19:18     ` Giel van Schijndel
2015-01-07 22:16       ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-01-07 23:06         ` Arend van Spriel
2015-01-04 23:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] Align member-assigns in a structure-copy block Giel van Schijndel
2015-01-05  9:17   ` Kalle Valo
2015-01-05  9:16 ` Kalle Valo
     [not found] ` <1420394427-19509-1-git-send-email-me-sZ9Uef1cvPWHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-07 18:40   ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-01-07 19:38 ` [PATCH RESEND 1/2] wlcore: fix copy-paste bug: assign from src struct not dest Giel van Schijndel
2015-01-07 19:38   ` [PATCH RESEND 2/2] wlcore: align member-assigns in a structure-copy block Giel van Schijndel
     [not found]     ` <1420659525-22975-2-git-send-email-me-sZ9Uef1cvPWHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-09 17:03       ` Kalle Valo
     [not found]         ` <87vbkfga32.fsf-HodKDYzPHsUD5k0oWYwrnHL1okKdlPRT@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-11 10:22           ` Eliad Peller
2015-01-11 20:32             ` Giel van Schijndel
2015-01-15 13:23             ` Kalle Valo
2015-01-23 17:07   ` [RESEND, 1/2] wlcore: fix copy-paste bug: assign from src struct not dest Kalle Valo

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