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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Dmitry Rokosov <DDRokosov@sberdevices.ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] regmap: trace: Remove explicit castings
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 10:46:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220901104601.01773fb8@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VcrBS=+bxXz62HB6joB3+6meVK9YJtJOYSS3PNrY13AVg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 17:18:01 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 5:15 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 04:23:35PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:  
> > > There is no need to have explicit castings to the same type the
> > > variables are of. Remove the explicit castings.  
> >
> > IIRC this was an idiom that the trace code was using for some deep magic
> > reason to do with some fiddly preprocessor stuff.  
> 
> Perhaps that (dark) magic disappeared a long time ago since in my
> practice of adding trace events this is the first (and probably
> oldest) one which has these castings. Perhaps Steven can shed a light.
> 

There was no dark magic for those castings. The trace events never needed
them. It was added from the original commit:

fb2736bbaee0e ("regmap: Add basic tracepoints")

So, I'm all for dropping them.

Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-01 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-01 13:23 [PATCH v1 1/3] regmap: trace: Remove useless check for NULL for bulk ops Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-01 13:23 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] regmap: trace: Remove explicit castings Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-01 13:31   ` Mark Brown
2022-09-01 14:18     ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-01 14:46       ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2022-09-01 14:50         ` Mark Brown
2022-09-01 15:28           ` Steven Rostedt
2022-09-01 22:22   ` Dmitry Rokosov
2022-09-01 13:23 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] regmap: trace: Remove unneeded blank lines Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-01 22:22   ` Dmitry Rokosov
2022-09-01 22:20 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] regmap: trace: Remove useless check for NULL for bulk ops Dmitry Rokosov
2022-09-05 17:44 ` Mark Brown

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