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

[Michal Privoznik]

On 02/08/2017 01:43 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> 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
> 

VIR_ONCE_GLOBAL_INIT
KVM_FEATURE_DEF
DECLARE_CLASS_COMMON
src/esx/*
tests/*
XDR_PRIMITIVE_DISSECTOR
VIR_ENUM_DECL
VIR_ENUM_IMPL
PROBE

just to name a few places where we already do what you NACKed. If using
macros to construct functions is that bad, I expect you to write a patch
to get rid of those.

Michal