linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] rhashtable: rename rht_for

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Date:   Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:50:11 +0100
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc:     Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] rhashtable: rename rht_for_each*continue as *from.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 6:10 AM NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com> wrote:
>
> The pattern set by list.h is that for_each..continue()
> iterators start at the next entry after the given one,
> while for_each..from() iterators start at the given
> entry.
>
> The rht_for_each*continue() iterators are documented as though the
> start at the 'next' entry, but actually start at the given entry,
> and they are used expecting that behaviour.
> So fix the documentation and change the names to *from for consistency
> with list.h

Thank you for taking care of the .clang-format changes!

Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>

Cheers,
Miguel