Re: [PATCH] fbcon: introduce for_each_registered_fb() helper
From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Mon Jul 02 2018 - 03:30:53 EST
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 07:20:13PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 00:20 +0800, Yisheng Xie wrote:
> > Following pattern is often used:
> >
> > for (i = 0; i < FB_MAX; i++) {
> > if (registered_fb[i]) {
> > ...
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Therefore, as Andy's suggestion, for_each_registered_fb() helper can
>
> Suggested-by then ?
>
> > be introduced to make the code easier to read and write by reducing
> > indentation level. It also saves few lines of code in each occurrence.
> >
> > This patch convert all part here at the same time.
>
> LGTM except macro implementation. That's why I have mentioned
> for_each_pci_bridge() to look at.
>
> > +#define for_each_registered_fb(i) \
> > + for (i = 0; i < FB_MAX; i++) \
> > + if (registered_fb[i])
> > +
>
> This needs to be protected against nested conditionals.
> Otherwise compiler issues a warning and even may generate wrong code.
See for_each_if() in include/drm/drmP.h ... we should probably lift that
into a general header. The for_each_if() is used all over drm in iterator
macros, exactly to avoid surprises.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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