Re: [PATCH net-next 08/11] net: stmmac: Add EMAC3 variant of dwmac4

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Mar 16 2023 - 14:52:47 EST


On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:36:09 -0500 Andrew Halaney wrote:
> static void emac3_config_cbs(struct mac_device_info *hw, u32 send_slope,
> u32 idle_slope, u32 high_credit,
> u32 low_credit, u32 queue)
>
> I agree, that's quite gnarly to read. the emac3_config_cbs is the
> callback, so it's already at 6 arguments, so there's nothing I can
> trim there. I could create some struct for readability, populate that,
> then call the do_config_cbs() func with it from emac3_config_cbs.
> Is that the sort of thing you want to see?

Yes, a structure is much better, because it can be initialized member
by member,

struct bla my_bla = { .this = 1, .that = 2, .and = 3, another = 4, };

That's much easier to read. A poor man's version of Python's keyword
arguments, if you will.