linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 1/3] of: introduce for_each_matching_node_and

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Message-ID: <CACxGe6u5UBqVPrBqwn9rhjuBx4uCuuHKU=FcvSp0GJ2G8ogSNQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:06:16 +0000
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@...il.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 1/3] of: introduce for_each_matching_node_and_match()

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2012, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> However, this results in iterating over table twice; the second time
>> inside of_match_node(). The implementation of for_each_matching_node()
>> already found the match, so this is redundant. Invent new function
>> of_find_matching_node_and_match() and macro
>> for_each_matching_node_and_match() to remove the double iteration,
>> thus transforming the above code to:
>>
>>     for_each_matching_node_and_match(np, table, &match)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
>
> This look useful, but I wonder if the interface would make more sense if you
> make the last argument to the macro a normal pointer, rather than a
> pointer-to-pointer. You can take the reference as part of the macro.

To me that makes for harder to understand code. It *looks* like an
argument to a normal function call, but it gets changed by the caller.

g.
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