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
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linux-hardening, linux-mm
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:quoted
On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 17:58:38 +0800 Hongbo Li wrote:quoted
Use str_disabled_enabled() helper instead of open coding the same....quoted
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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 sentSide 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.