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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 00:25:48 +0200
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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>>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"),
>>		...
> 
> 
> I'd go even further and suggest that pulling the mapping from a mask or
> key to string out into a table and looping through it is preferable for
> this sort of thing. You win later if you decide you need the same mapping
> elsewhere or if you want to format your messages differently, add bits to
> it, etc. Tables are generally easier to inspect for errors than code,
> although Linus' version is very nearly a table.
> 
> Maintaining tables as code is a pain and is generally only a win for
> small or sparse state machines.


Once could have a look at the ll_rw_blk.c file. There is
a function there, which is dissecting the differnt request
attributes, which are stored as bitfields there.

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