From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: heiko@sntech.de (Heiko =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=FCbner?=) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:48:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v4] of: add functions to count number of elements in a property In-Reply-To: <20140204173034.2D899C4050F@trevor.secretlab.ca> References: <27256277.YJ687suYy5@phil> <20140204173034.2D899C4050F@trevor.secretlab.ca> Message-ID: <13514940.URVnEJ4NF0@phil> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Grant, On Tuesday, 4. February 2014 17:30:34 Grant Likely wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:07:30 -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Heiko St??bner wrote: > > > The need to know the number of array elements in a property is > > > a common pattern. To prevent duplication of open-coded implementations > > > add a helper static function that also centralises strict sanity > > > checking and DTB format details, as well as a set of wrapper functions > > > for u8, u16, u32 and u64. > > > > > > Suggested-by: Mark Rutland > > > Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner > > > --- > > > > Looks good. Do you plan to convert some users to use this? > > I'll take that as an acked-by. Merged, thanks. before you taking this patch, I was planning on simply sending this as part of my rockchip-smp series - as I'm currently the only user of it :-) . This going through your tree is most likely the better way, but now I need it to somehow make its way into arm-soc too ... I guess some sort of stable branch arm-soc could pull? Thanks Heiko