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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 3/7] test_hexdump: go through all possible lengths of buffer
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On Fri, Nov 20 2015, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 11:07 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>>
>>
>> Why keep the variable l when it is just a synonym for the new
>> parameter buflen? It is quite confusing that you change some but not
>> all occurrences of l to buflen. If you want to make the diff minimal
>> but still have a descriptive parameter name, just keep the 'size_t l
>> =
>> buflen;' assignment and don't otherwise refer to buflen. But I think
>> it's better to eliminate 'l' and just change everything to
>> buflen. Don't mix the two approaches, though.
>
> Okay, I got it for the future, though the series is already in linux-
> next, so do we really need to re-hack half of it because of that?

Stuff in -next isn't set in stone. I'm pretty sure Andrew can replace
one set of patches with another.

Rasmus


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