netdev - Re: [RFC, PATCH net-next-2.6] net: introduce a macro to traverse through uc

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Message-Id: <20100123.020140.231150448.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:01:40 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jpirko@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH net-next-2.6] net: introduce a macro to traverse
 through uc_list easily

From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:13:02 +0100

> Therefore that would be good to introduce a macro that can be used to traverse
> through addresses in the list without caller knowing anything about the type of
> the list. I think this kind of an abstraction is appropriate on this place.
> Also during the phase of changing, the macro can use the original list and onc ...
> What do you think about this? Please comment.

Yes this is the way to do it, three steps:

1) Add interface macros that iterate using the existing
   datastructure

2) Convert drivers to use #1

3) Convert to list_head

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