netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/4] net: introduce mc list helpers

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Date:	Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:18:32 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, bruce.w.allan@...el.com,
	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, john.ronciak@...el.com,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, mchehab@...radead.org,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/4] net: introduce mc list helpers

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 15:52 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> This helpers should be used by network drivers to access to netdev
> multicast lists.
[...]
> +static inline void netdev_mc_walk(struct net_device *dev,
> +				  void (*func)(void *, unsigned char *),
> +				  void *data)
> +{
> +	struct dev_addr_list *mclist;
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0, mclist = dev->mc_list; mclist && i < dev->mc_count;
> +	     i++, mclist = mclist->next)
> +		func(data, mclist->dmi_addr);
> +}
[...]

We usually implement iteration as macros so that any context doesn't
have to be squeezed through a single untyped (void *) variable.  A macro
for this would look something like:

#define netdev_for_each_mc_addr(dev, addr)						\
	for (addr = (dev)->mc_list ? (dev)->mc_list->dmi_addr : NULL;			\
	     addr;									\
	     addr = (container_of(addr, struct dev_addr_list, dmi_addr)->next ?		\
		     container_of(addr, struct dev_addr_list, dmi_addr)->next->dmi_addr : \
		     NULL))

Once you change the list type this can presumably be made less ugly.

Ben.

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