Re: [PATCH 1/3] of: Add of_match_machine helper

From: Tuomas Tynkkynen
Date: Mon Aug 18 2014 - 06:10:28 EST


On 17/08/14 18:28, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 02:01:53 +0300, Tuomas Tynkkynen <ttynkkynen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_match_machine);
>
> Too wordy...
>
> return of_match_node(matches, of_allnodes);
>
> :-)
>
> It could be a static inline, but I don't think it's even worth having a
> helper. The callers could just open code the above.
>

Do you mean all the drivers should be referring to of_allnodes directly?
I see that it's indeed exported, but to me that sounds like relying too
much on an implementation detail. In fact, Documentation/devicetree/todo.txt
even seems to have a TODO entry for its removal ("Remove of_allnodes list
and iterate using list of child nodes alone").

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