linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] property: Use tidy for_each_named

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Message-ID: <20250414201450.43fb8d9c@jic23-huawei>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:14:50 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com>, Matti Vaittinen
 <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>, Daniel Scally <djrscally@...il.com>,
 Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>, Sakari Ailus
 <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman
 <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] property: Use tidy for_each_named_* macros

On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:47:44 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 09:46:14AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 02:52:00PM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:  
> > > Implementing if-conditions inside for_each_x() macros requires some
> > > thinking to avoid side effects in the calling code. Resulting code
> > > may look somewhat awkward, and there are couple of different ways it is
> > > usually done.
> > > 
> > > Standardizing this to one way can help making it more obvious for a code
> > > reader and writer. The newly added for_each_if() is a way to achieve this.
> > > 
> > > Use for_each_if() to make these macros look like many others which
> > > should in the long run help reading the code.  
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> > Thanks for cleaning these up!
> >   
> > > ---
> > > The patch was crafted against the IIO/testing branch, and it depends on
> > > the 76125d7801e5 ("property: Add functions to iterate named child").
> > > Hence I'd suggest taking this via IIO tree (if this gets accepted).  
> > 
> > I'm not sure why. The for_each_if() is part of v6.15-rc1.  
> 
> Ah, I see, you are trying to fix newly introduced stuff? I would rather suggest
> to make this straightforward against the current upstream and ask Jonathan to
> rebase the testing to fold the fixes into a new APIs.
> 

Or we just do this next cycle maybe.  Definitely not going to take anything
through IIO that hasn't been on the iio list btw.

Jonathan