On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 07:02:11PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 04:57:48PM +0000, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 06:44:41PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > This looks good to me, but I'd rather wait a few releases to
> > > avoid too mush backporting pain.
> > 
> > Chaitanya made me realize that about half of the nvme functions
> > are using "struct nvme_command c" on the stack, and then memsets
> > it, and half of the nvme functions are using an initializer.
> > 
> > IMHO, using an initializer is more clear.
> > 
> > memset has to be used if the function needs to reset an
> > existing struct, but in none of the functions that I've seen,
> > are we given an existing nvme_command that we need to reset.
> > All the functions that I've seen declares a new nvme_command
> > on the stack (so an initializer makes more sense).
> > 
> > What do you think about me unifying this later on?
> 
> I like the initializers a lot.  But as I said I'd rather wait a
> bit for now.

Just to be clear:
Even with these patches, about half of the nvme functions are using
memset rather than initializers.

But sure, I'll wait a couple of releases, and then rebase this,
and additionally convert the "struct nvme_command c" memset users
to use initializers.


Kind regards,
Niklas

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