Re: [PATCH v2 04/35] brcmfmac: firmware: Support having multiple alt paths

[Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>]

On 05/01/2022 07.09, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 04.01.2022 11:43, Hector Martin пишет:
>>>> +static int brcm_alt_fw_paths(const char *path, const char *board_type,
>>>> +			     const char *alt_paths[BRCMF_FW_MAX_ALT_PATHS])>  {
>>>>  	char alt_path[BRCMF_FW_NAME_LEN];
>>>>  	const char *suffix;
>>>>  
>>>> +	memset(alt_paths, 0, array_size(sizeof(*alt_paths),
>>>> +					BRCMF_FW_MAX_ALT_PATHS));
>>> You don't need to use array_size() since size of a fixed array is
>>> already known.
>>>
>>> memset(alt_paths, 0, sizeof(alt_paths));
>> It's a function argument, so that doesn't work and actually throws a
>> warning. Array function argument notation is informative only; they
>> behave strictly equivalent to pointers. Try it:
>>
>> $ cat test.c
>> #include <stdio.h>
>>
>> void foo(char x[42])
>> {
>> 	printf("%ld\n", sizeof(x));
>> }
>>
>> int main() {
>> 	char x[42];
>>
>> 	foo(x);
>> }
>> $ gcc test.c
>> test.c: In function ‘foo’:
>> test.c:5:31: warning: ‘sizeof’ on array function parameter ‘x’ will
>> return size of ‘char *’ [-Wsizeof-array-argument]
>>     5 |         printf("%ld\n", sizeof(x));
>>       |                               ^
>> test.c:3:15: note: declared here
>>     3 | void foo(char x[42])
>>       |          ~~~~~^~~~~
>> $ ./a.out
>> 8
> 
> Then please use "const char **alt_paths" for the function argument to
> make code cleaner and add another argument to pass the number of array
> elements.

So you want me to do the ARRAY_SIZE at the caller side then?

> 
> static int brcm_alt_fw_paths(const char *path, const char *board_type,
> 			     const char **alt_paths, unsigned int num_paths)
> {
> 	size_t alt_paths_size = array_size(sizeof(*alt_paths), num_paths);
> 	
> 	memset(alt_paths, 0, alt_paths_size);
> }
> 
> ...
> 
> Maybe even better create a dedicated struct for the alt_paths:
> 
> struct brcmf_fw_alt_paths {
> 	const char *alt_paths[BRCMF_FW_MAX_ALT_PATHS];
> 	unsigned int index;
> };
> 
> and then use the ".index" in the brcm_free_alt_fw_paths(). I suppose
> this will make code a bit nicer and easier to follow.
> 

I'm confused; the array size is constant. What would index contain and
why would would brcm_free_alt_fw_paths use it? Just as an iterator
variable instead of using a local variable? Or do you mean count?

Though, to be honest, at this point I'm considering rethinking the whole
patch for this mechanism because I'm not terribly happy with the current
approach and clearly you aren't either :-) Maybe it makes more sense to
stop trying to compute all the alt_paths ahead of time, and just have
the function compute a single one to be used just-in-time at firmware
request time, and just iterate over board_types.

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Hector Martin (marcan@marcan.st)
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