linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] util_macros.h: add find

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Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:49:16 -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 <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] util_macros.h: add find_closest() macro

On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:27:41 +0100 Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com> wrote:

> Searching for the member of an array closest to 'x' is
> duplicated in several places.

Linear search is pretty nasty.  lib/bsearch.c could do this
with a bit of tweaking.  But that's a separate project.
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