Re: [RFC, PATCH net-next-2.6] net: introduce a macro to traverse through uc_list easily

[Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>]

Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:01:40AM CET, davem@davemloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
>Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:13:02 +0100
>
>> Therefore that would be good to introduce a macro that can be used to traverse
>> through addresses in the list without caller knowing anything about the type of
>> the list. I think this kind of an abstraction is appropriate on this place.
>> Also during the phase of changing, the macro can use the original list and onc ...
>> What do you think about this? Please comment.
>
>Yes this is the way to do it, three steps:
>
>1) Add interface macros that iterate using the existing
>   datastructure
>
>2) Convert drivers to use #1
>
>3) Convert to list_head
>

Yes, I know the drill. I just wanted to be sure that final macro (kinda ugly)
will be accepted... I'll first make uc_list part (and that's how mc_list part
will lool like finally). Will post soon.

Thanks

Jirka