Re: simplify procfs code for seq_file instances

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:19:16 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.jfs.general
Message-ID <20180424081916.e94ca8463fb3c39ebc082bdd__15157.3799703785$1524583052$gmane$org@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:23:04 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 09:57:50PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > >     git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git proc_create
> > 
> > 
> > I want to ask if it is time to start using poorman function overloading
> > with _b_c_e(). There are millions of allocation functions for example,
> > all slightly difference, and people will add more. Seeing /proc interfaces
> > doubled like this is painful.
> 
> Function overloading is totally unacceptable.
> 
> And I very much disagree with a tradeoff that keeps 5000 lines of 
> code vs a few new helpers.

OK, the curiosity and suspense are killing me.  What the heck is
"function overloading with _b_c_e()"?

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