Re: kernel.h: add ARRAY_AND_SIZE() macro to complement ARRAY_SIZE().

[Christer Weinigel]

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> [Christer Weinigel - Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:28:19PM +0200]
> ...
> > In my opinion, making platform_add_devices into a magic macro is  
> > actually worse, since the same construct (array, ARRAY_SIZE(array)) is  
> > used in many places, so one would have to do the same thing over and  
> > over again for every function.  In that case it's better to have to  
> > learn one macro once, and the ALL_CAPITALS should make it obvious that  
> > it is a macro.

> Well, can't agree with you :) It's my _presonal_ opinion.
> You could define it as
>
> static inline int platform_add_devices_array(struct platform_device **devs)
> {
> 	return platform_add_devices(devs, ARRAY_SIZE(devs));
> }

Won't work.  You would have to use a macro.  The above would turn into:

     platform_add_devices(devs, 1);

or would if the __must_be_array check didn't catch it.

  /Christer
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