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Date:      Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:12:59 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: sysctl additional functions/macros 
Message-ID:  <6795.1199466779@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:50:49 EST." <200801041150.49541.jhb@freebsd.org> 

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In message <200801041150.49541.jhb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>On Friday 04 January 2008 11:18:29 am Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <477E592B.9040106@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:
>> >John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> >right, so you've solved that one.. 
>> 
>> Please no!
>> 
>> This is far more complicated and wasteful than it needs to be.
>> 
>> Please just include the code in the macro call and instantiate
>> a function with that code inlined.
>
>Your code body in the example though is the just the validation step, it 
>doesn't have all the copyin/copyout goop (nor should it).

Of course not, the SYSCTL_INT_CODE() macro should instantiate that
in the new function.

>Are you really 
>worried about the overhead of having a worker function call a function 
>containing the validation code?

No, I'm appalled at another clutch of weird data structures to encapsulate
what is really a piece of code as a number of weird fields.

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