Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108

From: Martin Bligh
Date: Thu Sep 14 2006 - 18:46:39 EST


i disagree. Consider the following example from LTT:
...
trace_socket_sendmsg(sock, sock->sk->sk_family,
sock->sk->sk_type,
sock->sk->sk_protocol,
size);
...

what do the 5 extra lines introduced by trace_socket_sendmsg() tell us? Nothing. They mostly just duplicate the information i already have from the function declaration. They obscure the clear view of the function:
...
the resulting visual and structural redundancy hurts.

Couldn't that be easily fixed by just doing

trace_socket_sendmsg(sock, size);

and have it work out which esoteric parts of the sock we want to trace,
and which we don't? Is much less visually invasive, and gives the same
effect.

M.


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