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Date:   Fri, 4 Oct 2019 11:09:43 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>,
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        Vishal Kulkarni <vishal@chelsio.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] string-choice: add yesno(), onoff(),
 enableddisabled(), plural() helpers
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 11:07:39AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> The kernel has plenty of ternary operators to choose between constant
> strings, such as condition ? "yes" : "no", as well as value == 1 ? "" :
> "s":
> 
> $ git grep '? "yes" : "no"' | wc -l
> 258
> $ git grep '? "on" : "off"' | wc -l
> 204
> $ git grep '? "enabled" : "disabled"' | wc -l
> 196
> $ git grep '? "" : "s"' | wc -l
> 25
> 
> Additionally, there are some occurences of the same in reverse order,
> split to multiple lines, or otherwise not caught by the simple grep.
> 
> Add helpers to return the constant strings. Remove existing equivalent
> and conflicting functions in i915, cxgb4, and USB core. Further
> conversion can be done incrementally.
> 
> While the main goal here is to abstract recurring patterns, and slightly
> clean up the code base by not open coding the ternary operators, there
> are also some space savings to be had via better string constant
> pooling.
> 
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
> Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: Vishal Kulkarni <vishal@chelsio.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> # v1
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

For this version at least :)