Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 5 authors, 2024-09-04

Re: [PATCH -next 2/4] tun: Make use of str_disabled_enabled helper

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-09-02 14:30:54
Also in: linux-hardening, linux-mm

Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 01:07:41PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
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On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 17:58:38 +0800 Hongbo Li wrote:
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Use str_disabled_enabled() helper instead of open
coding the same.
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 		netif_info(tun, drv, tun->dev, "ignored: set checksum %s\n",
-			   arg ? "disabled" : "enabled");
+			   str_disabled_enabled(arg));
You don't explain the 'why'. How is this an improvement?
nack on this and 2 similar networking changes you sent
Side opinion: This makes the messages more unified and not prone to typos
and/or grammatical mistakes. Unification allows to shrink binary due to
linker efforts on string literals deduplication.
This adds a layer of indirection.

The original code is immediately obvious. When I see the new code I
have to take a detour through cscope to figure out what it does.

To me, in this case, the benefit is too marginal to justify that.
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