linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kernel.h: add find

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Message-Id: <20150312160700.c0a64288f6726ba517318bc2@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:07:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	lm-sensors <lm-sensors@...sensors.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kernel.h: add find_closest() macro

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 18:27:19 +0100 Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com> wrote:

> +/*
> + * Similar to find_closest(), but 'a' is expected to be sorted
> + * in descending order.
> + */
> +#define find_closest_desc(x, a, as) __find_closest(x, a, as, >)

description?  descriptor? descendent?  oh, it's "descending".  So
let's use "descending"!

I think it's good to put possibly-useful stuff like this into
includes/linux, particularly when we already have several usage sites. 
But we don't _have_ to keep putting things into kernel.h.  Maybe a new
include/linux/handy-macros.h or include/linux/find_closest.h?

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