Re: [PATCH] usb: mtu3: cleanup with list_first_entry_or_null()

[Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng.yun@mediatek.com>]

Hi,
On Sat, 2017-05-20 at 21:19 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:05:31AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > The combo of list_empty() and list_first_entry() can be replaced with
> > list_first_entry_or_null().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/usb/mtu3/mtu3.h | 8 ++------
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/mtu3/mtu3.h b/drivers/usb/mtu3/mtu3.h
> > index aa6fd6a..7b6dc23 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/mtu3/mtu3.h
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/mtu3/mtu3.h
> > @@ -356,12 +356,8 @@ static inline struct mtu3_ep *to_mtu3_ep(struct usb_ep *ep)
> >  
> >  static inline struct mtu3_request *next_request(struct mtu3_ep *mep)
> >  {
> > -	struct list_head *queue = &mep->req_list;
> > -
> > -	if (list_empty(queue))
> > -		return NULL;
> > -
> > -	return list_first_entry(queue, struct mtu3_request, list);
> > +	return list_first_entry_or_null(&mep->req_list, struct mtu3_request,
> > +					list);
> 
> Even better, why is this an inlined function at all?  Why not just have
> it "open coded" everywhere it is used?
> 
This can avoid repeated function definition, currently it is used in
three files.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h