Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] PCI: Introduce pci_dev_for_each_resource()

Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-03-23T16:28:55Z

Hi Andy,

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 4:15 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 10:02:38AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > I poked around looking for similar patterns elsewhere with:
> > git grep "#define.*for_each_.*_p("
> > git grep "#define.*for_each_.*_idx("
> >
> > I didn't find any other "_p" iterators and just a few "_idx" ones, so
> > my hope is to follow what little precedent there is, as well as
> > converge on the basic "*_for_each_resource()" iterators and remove the
> > "_idx()" versions over time by doing things like the
> > pci_claim_resource() change.
>
> The p is heavily used in the byte order conversion helpers.

I can't seem to find them. Example?

Or do you mean cpu_to_be32p()? There "p" means pointer,
which is something completely different.

> > What do you think? If it seems like excessive churn, we can do it
> > as-is and still try to reduce the use of the index variable over time.
>
> I think _p has a precedent as well. But I can think about it a bit, maybe
> we can come up with something smarter.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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