[PATCH V4 1/3] of: introduce for_each_matching_node_and_match()

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Nov 21 04:53:20 EST 2012


On Tuesday 20 November 2012, Stephen Warren wrote:
> However, this results in iterating over table twice; the second time
> inside of_match_node(). The implementation of for_each_matching_node()
> already found the match, so this is redundant. Invent new function
> of_find_matching_node_and_match() and macro
> for_each_matching_node_and_match() to remove the double iteration,
> thus transforming the above code to:
> 
>     for_each_matching_node_and_match(np, table, &match)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>

This look useful, but I wonder if the interface would make more sense if you
make the last argument to the macro a normal pointer, rather than a
pointer-to-pointer. You can take the reference as part of the macro.

	Arnd



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