From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: heiko@sntech.de (Heiko =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=FCbner?=) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:45:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v4] of: add functions to count number of elements in a property In-Reply-To: <20140205120652.9B1A7C40A89@trevor.secretlab.ca> References: <27256277.YJ687suYy5@phil> <13514940.URVnEJ4NF0@phil> <20140205120652.9B1A7C40A89@trevor.secretlab.ca> Message-ID: <8812602.o5pus1vSFK@phil> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Am Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2014, 12:06:52 schrieb Grant Likely: > On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:48:17 +0100, Heiko St??bner wrote: > > 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? > > Nah, I'll drop it from my tree. Add my acked-by and merge it via > arm-soc. As I said on IRC, now it seems like you can keep this patch in your tree :-) If we're really going with reserved-memory like you suggested in the rockchip- smp series it removes the need to count u32-elements in a property for me, as the reserved blocks move into individual subnodes. Heiko