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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>,
	Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] kernel.h: provide array iterator
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:45:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1521225943.6119.10.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6af11b9-d697-59ec-6acc-80f0657a3e11@prevas.dk>

On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 16:27 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 2018-03-15 11:00, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> > Simplify array iteration with a helper to iterate each entry in an array.
> > Utilise the existing ARRAY_SIZE macro to identify the length of the array
> > and pointer arithmetic to process each item as a for loop.

I recall getting negative feedback on a similar proposal
a decade ago:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/13/25

Not sure this is different.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-16 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-15 10:00 [PATCH][RFC] kernel.h: provide array iterator Kieran Bingham
2018-03-16  4:21 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-16  6:41   ` Julia Lawall
2018-03-16  7:31     ` Kieran Bingham
2018-03-16 15:27 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-03-16 18:45   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2018-03-17 10:12     ` Kieran Bingham
2018-03-17  9:32   ` Kieran Bingham
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-03-16 19:40 Alexey Dobriyan

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