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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:28:15 +0100 From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> 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 Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:01:40AM CET, davem@...emloft.net wrote: >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 > Yes, I know the drill. I just wanted to be sure that final macro (kinda ugly) will be accepted... I'll first make uc_list part (and that's how mc_list part will lool like finally). Will post soon. Thanks Jirka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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