[PATCH 09/11] clk: lpc32xx: add common clock framework driver

[Vladimir Zapolskiy]

On 20.11.2015 16:04, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 20 November 2015 03:05:09 Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
>> +
>> +struct clk_proto_t {
>> +       const char *name;
>> +       const u8 parents[LPC32XX_CLK_PARENTS_MAX];
>> +       u8 num_parents;
>> +       unsigned long flags;
>> +};
>> +
>> +#define CLK_PREFIX(LITERAL)            LPC32XX_CLK_ ## LITERAL
>> +#define NUMARGS(...)   (sizeof((int[]){__VA_ARGS__})/sizeof(int))
>> +
>> +#define LPC32XX_CLK_DEFINE(_idx, _name, _flags, ...)           \
>> +       [CLK_PREFIX(_idx)] = {                                  \
>> +               .name = #_name,                                 \
>> +               .flags = _flags,                                \
>> +               .parents = { __VA_ARGS__ },                     \
>> +               .num_parents = NUMARGS(__VA_ARGS__),            \
>> +        }
>> +
> 
> Try to not outsmart yourself with the macros. It's better to avoid
> string concatenation so it's possible to grep for uses of some
> constant.
> 
> I would probably not use a macro at all here and just open-code the
> entire table. If you ensure that '0' is not a valid parent, then
> you can leave out the .num_parents field and just look for the
> zero-termination.

Macros are here for simplicity, code size reduction and to avoid some
stupid mistakes like different number of .parents and .num_parents.

I believe macro unwrapping in this code will add another 1000 LoC and
will result in quite unreadable and less maintainable code.

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Best wishes,
Vladimir