netdev - Re: [PATCH] Rework dev_base via list

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Date:	Thu, 03 May 2007 14:42:12 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rework dev_base via list_head

David Miller wrote:
> From: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>
> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 17:40:56 +0400
> 
>> Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making
>> device list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of
>> dev_base variable and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced
>> by  for_each_netdev loop. A few most complicated places were
>> converted to using first_netdev()/next_netdev().
>>
>> Fits 2.6.21-rc7 tree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>
>> Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>
> 
> Overall this looks mostly good.
> 
> One thing I want to audit before applying this is
> loop termination conditions.
> 
> With the old loop, if you do something like this:
> 
> 	for (dev = dev_base; dev; dev = dev->next) {
> 		if (dev == what_I_want)
> 			break;
> 	}
> 
> you can test for a successful find after the loop with:
> 
> 	if (dev) {
> 		I_found_it();
> 	}
> 
> That doesn't work with for_each_netdev(), if the loop
> runs till the end of the list, the iterator will not
> be left at NULL.
> 
> I just want to make sure you didn't leave any code around which wants
> that behavior still.

My fault :( I've found some places where this was missed.
I will make a new patch shortly.

> This is one of the subtle things about using the list iterators in
> linux/list.h, vs. a traditional by-hand singly linked list
> implementation.
> 

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