Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/4] net: introduce mc list helpers

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Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:18:32PM CEST, bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 15:52 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> This helpers should be used by network drivers to access to netdev
>> multicast lists.
>[...]
>> +static inline void netdev_mc_walk(struct net_device *dev,
>> +				  void (*func)(void *, unsigned char *),
>> +				  void *data)
>> +{
>> +	struct dev_addr_list *mclist;
>> +	int i;
>> +
>> +	for (i = 0, mclist = dev->mc_list; mclist && i < dev->mc_count;
>> +	     i++, mclist = mclist->next)
>> +		func(data, mclist->dmi_addr);
>> +}
>[...]
>
>We usually implement iteration as macros so that any context doesn't
>have to be squeezed through a single untyped (void *) variable.  A macro
>for this would look something like:
>
>#define netdev_for_each_mc_addr(dev, addr)						\
>	for (addr = (dev)->mc_list ? (dev)->mc_list->dmi_addr : NULL;			\
>	     addr;									\
>	     addr = (container_of(addr, struct dev_addr_list, dmi_addr)->next ?		\
>		     container_of(addr, struct dev_addr_list, dmi_addr)->next->dmi_addr : \
>		     NULL))

I admit this would look better. Going to change this and then repost.

Thanks Ben

>
>Once you change the list type this can presumably be made less ugly.
>
>Ben.
>
>-- 
>Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
>Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
>They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
>
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