From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:27:42 GMT
Subject: Re: janitoring
Message-ID: <4A6810EE.4030902@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <1248298475-2990-1-git-send-email-madcoder@debian.org>

Pierre Habouzit schrieb:
> [PATCH 2/3] refactor: use bitsizeof() instead of 8 * sizeof()
> 
>   use a macro for CHAR_BIT * sizeof(...), I tend to find it more
>   readable than 8 * sizeof(...) in the code. YMMV.
> 
> [PATCH 3/3] janitor: add DIV_ROUND_UP and use it.
> 
>   Just use linux/kernel.h DIV_ROUND_UP(a, b), it's way easier to read
>   than (a + b - 1) / (b).

Quite frankly, using these two macros means that code readers have to
learn their meaning although the original code pieces are (IMO) well-known
paradigms. Moreover, DIV_ROUND_UP hides that b is evaluated twice. I am
not enthused by these patches (though, I don't see a reason to object).

-- Hannes