Re: [PATCH] 2.5.10 IDE 42

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > +		if (stat & READY_STAT)
> > +			printk("DriveReady ");
> > +		if (stat & WRERR_STAT)
> > +			printk("DeviceFault ");
> > +		if (stat & SEEK_STAT)
> > +			printk("SeekComplete ");
> > +		if (stat & DRQ_STAT)
> > +			printk("DataRequest ");
> > +		if (stat & ECC_STAT)
> > +			printk("CorrectedError ");
> > +		if (stat & INDEX_STAT)
> > +			printk("Index ");
> > +		if (stat & ERR_STAT)
> > +			printk("Error ");
>
> I believe this is actually making it *less* readable.

Somewhat agreed. Also, the above is just not the right way to do
printouts.

I'd suggest rewriting the whole big mess as something like

	#define STAT_STR(x,s) \
		((stat & x ##_STAT) ? s " " : "")

	...

	printf("IDE: %s%s%s%s%s%s..\n"
		STAT_STR(READY, "DriveReady"),
		STAT_STR(WERR, "DeviceFault"),
		...

which is pretty certain to generate much smaller code (not to mention
smaller sources).

			Linus