Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 10:12 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Michal Kazior <michal.kaz...@tieto.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On 16/05/13 09:03, Joe Perches wrote:
>> >> Neaten and shorten the uses of ath10k_dbg and ath10k_dbg_dump.
>> >>
>> >> Add macros to hold the "ATH10K_DBG_" mask portion of the functions.
>> >
>> > I'm not really fond of this idea. It's harder to locate symbols when
>> > doing macro name concatenation. You can't jump to, e.g. WMI symbol
>> > definition because it doesn't exist (ATH10K_DBG_WMI is what you
>> > actually want). Although you don't look for this symbol often so I
>> > guess it's okay-ish.
>> 
>> That's a good point. I sometimes use cscope to find all messages with
>> certain level, this patch makes that impossible. And I don't really see
>> that we have problems with ATH10K_DBG_WMI being too long.
>
> from the diffstat: 12 files changed, 226 insertions(+), 260 deletions(-)
>
> Reducing the line count has value

Sure, but there's a limit to that as well. If it makes more difficult
for the developers is it worth saving 30 lines?

> grep -w works well for me, but I'm not a cscope user.

I didn't know about -w, that's handy. Thanks.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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