[PATCH v2] libfdt: Add fdt_next_subnode() to permit easy subnode iteration

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Sat Apr 27 09:13:45 EST 2013


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 05:43:31AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> Iterating through subnodes with libfdt is a little painful to write as we
> need something like this:
> 
> for (depth = 0, count = 0,
> 	offset = fdt_next_node(fdt, parent_offset, &depth);
>      (offset >= 0) && (depth > 0);
>      offset = fdt_next_node(fdt, offset, &depth)) {
> 	if (depth == 1) {
> 		/* code body */
> 	}
> }
> 
> Using fdt_next_subnode() we can instead write this, which is shorter and
> easier to get right:
> 
> for (offset = fdt_first_subnode(fdt, parent_offset);
>      offset >= 0;
>      offset = fdt_next_subnode(fdt, offset)) {
> 	/* code body */
> }
> 
> Also, it doesn't require two levels of indentation for the loop body.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Nice!

Acked-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Jon, please apply.

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