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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 10:55:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <577E2719.6000303__37370.7163068049$1467885401$gmane$org@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <577E279D02000078000FBEBF@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On 07/07/16 08:57, Jan Beulich wrote:
> ... for single items being collected: It is more typesafe (as the
> compiler can check format string and to-be-written-to variable match)
> and requires one less parameter to be passed.

Do not split commit messages between the subject and the body in this
way.  The body should be a complete description of the commit,
independent of the subject.

It's annoying to find only half a sentence in the body and have to go
re-read the subject again.

e.g.,

"xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()

xenbus_scanf() is preferred over xenbus_gather() because: a) the
compiler can check the types match the format; and b) one less parameter
is needed.

Use xenbus_scanf() instead of xenbus_gather() when reading only a single
key."

I think almost all of your commit messages suffer from this, please redo
them all.

> --- 4.7-rc6-prefer-xenbus_scanf.orig/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
> +++ 4.7-rc6-prefer-xenbus_scanf/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
> @@ -842,16 +842,16 @@ static int connect_ctrl_ring(struct back
>  	unsigned int evtchn;
>  	int err;
>  
> -	err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend,
> -			    "ctrl-ring-ref", "%u", &val, NULL);
> -	if (err)
> +	err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend,
> +			   "ctrl-ring-ref", "%u", &val);
> +	if (err <= 0)

< 0

David

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <577E279D02000078000FBEBF@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
2016-07-07  9:55 ` David Vrabel [this message]
     [not found] ` <577E2719.6000303@citrix.com>
2016-07-07 10:06   ` [PATCH] xen-netback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather() Jan Beulich
2016-07-07  7:57 Jan Beulich

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