Re: [PATCH 07/44 take 2] [UBI] misc unit header

Theodore Tso
2007-02-18T00:47:59Z

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:54:59PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> diff -auNrp tmp-from/drivers/mtd/ubi/misc.h tmp-to/drivers/mtd/ubi/misc.h
> --- tmp-from/drivers/mtd/ubi/misc.h 1970-01-01 02:00:00.000000000 +0200
> +++ tmp-to/drivers/mtd/ubi/misc.h 2007-02-17 18:07:26.000000000 +0200
> @@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
> +#define xquotise(s) #s
> +#define quotise(s) xquotise(s)

Nothing in your patch series uses this, and it's identical to
stringify(). Please remove?

> +/**
> + * rb_for_each_entry - walk an RB-tree.
> + *
> + * @rb: a pointer to type 'struct rb_node' to to use as a loop counter
> + * @pos: a pointer to RB-tree entry type to use as a loop counter
> + * @root: RB-tree's root
> + * @member: the name of the 'struct rb_node' within the RB-tree entry
> + */
> +#define rb_for_each_entry(rb, pos, root, member)...

Shouldn't this be added to include/linux/rbtree.h?

> +/**
> + * strdup_len - duplicate a string with known length.
> + *
> + * @str: original string
> + * @len: the length of the string
> + */
> +char *strdup_len(const char *str, int len);

I'm not sure this should be polluting the kernel symbol namespace,
especially since the implementation calls ubi_assert()....

It's not clear the assertion is all that useful, but if you must have
it, why not do the check as an inline (with the assertion normally
turned off), and then call out to kmemdup()?

- Ted