On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:02:07 +0200 (CEST) Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > +struct ps3rom_private {
> > > + struct ps3_storage_device *dev;
> > > + struct scsi_cmnd *curr_cmd;
> > > +};
> > > +#define ps3rom_priv(dev) ((dev)->sbd.core.driver_data)
> > > +
> >
> > Someone should invent a keyboard which delivers an electric shock when the
> > operator types "#define". In the meanwhile, I get to do the honours.
> >
> > Please don't implement in a macro anything which can be implemented in C.
>
> All I needed was a shorthand to access driver_data, for both read and write
> access (you cannot do the latter with C, unless you decouple read and write).
Oh dear.
ps3rom_priv(dev) = host;
that's 'orrid. We have an identifier pretending to be a function, only we
go and treat it as an lvalue.
I mean, C code should look like C code, and the above just doesn't.
Sigh.
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