Re: Patch of a new driver for kernel 2.4.x that need review

["Pekka J Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Hi Willy, 

Willy Tarreau writes:
> I dont agree with you here : enums are good to simply specify an ordering.
> But they must not be used to specify static mapping. Eg: if REG4 *must* be
> equal to BASE+4, you should not use enums, otherwise it will render the
> code unreadable. I personnaly don't want to count the position of REG7 in
> the enum to discover that it's at BASE+7.

Sorry, what do you have to count with the following? 

enum {
      TLCLK_REG0 = TLCLK_BASE,
      TLCLK_REG1 = TLCLK_BASE+1,
      TLCLK_REG2 = TLCLK_BASE+2,
}; 

Please note that enums are a general way of specifying _constants_ with the 
type int, not necessarily named enumerations. 

Willy Tarreau writes:
> if you need something more verbose to say exactly "write 7 to port 123",
> it's better to use defines (or even variables sometimes) than enums.

I would agree on variables (for some special cases) but not for defines. The 
problem with defines is that you can override a constant without even 
noticing it. Therefore, always use enums when you can, and defines only when 
you must. 

                 Pekka 

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