[PATCH 0/4] nvme: nidt and ns-desc related clanup

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:05:53PM -0700, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a small patch-series tries to minimize the number of the macro
> identifiers. 
> 
> In the current code we maintain NVME_NIDT_XXX identifire values and the
> their length NVME_NIDT_XXX_LEN separately which has 1:1 mapping. This
> adds founr extra macros and open coding of such macros in the host and
> the target.
> 
> With this open coding in future we will have to maintain one extra macro
> representing length for each new NIDT identifire that we will add.

I really don't see the point.  You remove one define per type, but
need to create a mapping table entry.  This adds (slightly) more code
and is less obvious.  Do you have any grand plans for which this is
a preparation?