[libvirt] [PATCH 04/11] qemu_security: Kill code duplication

[Peter Krempa]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 13:37:48 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 02/08/2017 01:23 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 11:37:07 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> >> Nearly all of these functions look the same. Except for a
> >> different virSecurityManager API call. There is no need to copy
> >> paste the code when we can use macros to generate it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  src/qemu/qemu_security.c | 179 ++++++++++++-----------------------------------
> >>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 135 deletions(-)
> > 
> > NACK, please don't partialy define function with macros.
> > 
> 
> Why not? What is the downside?

You'll never be able to navigate to the body of the function or ever
find it try 'vim -t qemuSecurityRestoreHostdevLabel' or navigate to
that after that patch.

The downside of the code being totally unreadable is way worse than a
few copied lines.

(YU|NA)CK

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