[PATCH v3 4/5] of: Create function for counting number of phandles in a property

Andreas Larsson andreas at gaisler.com
Wed Feb 13 20:57:58 EST 2013


On 2013-02-13 00:06, Grant Likely wrote:
> This patch creates of_count_phandle_with_args(), a new function for
> counting the number of phandle+argument tuples in a given property. This
> is better than the existing method of parsing each phandle individually
> until parsing fails which is a horribly slow way to do the count.
>
> Tested on ARM using the selftest code.
>
> v3: - Rebased on top of selftest code cleanup patch
> v2: - fix bug where of_parse_phandle_with_args() could behave like _count_.
>      - made of_gpio_named_count() into a static inline regardless of CONFIG_OF_GPIO
>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas at gaisler.com>

Tested-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas at gaisler.com>

Cheers,
Andreas Larsson



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