Re: [PATCH v7 3/7] drivers/i2c: Add port structure to FSI algorithm
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Wed May 30 2018 - 17:16:43 EST
On Wed, 2018-05-30 at 10:47 -0500, Eddie James wrote:
> > > + if (!list_empty(&i2c->ports)) {
> >
> > My gosh, this is done already in list_for_each*()
>
> No, list_for_each_entry does NOT check if the list is empty or if the
> first entry is NULL.
NULL is never valid for a list. It does however check for an empty list
It does it implicitely in the test part of the for () statement,
checking if the next pointer points back to the head.
Cheers,
Ben.