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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.20] isdn-capi: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriate
Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:41:30PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:52:17AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 18:04 +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
>>>> A patch to use ARRAY_SIZE macro already defined in kernel.h
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
>> [...]
>>>> - int nelem = sizeof(procfsentries)/sizeof(procfsentries[0]);
>>>> + int nelem = ARRAY_SIZE(procfsentries);
>>>> int i;
>>>>
>>>> for (i=0; i < nelem; i++) {
>>> For these patches, perhaps you can eliminate the temporary
>>> variable and change the loop to the more common form of
>>>
>>> for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(array); i++) {
>> Thanks, I think it's better too. Here's the modified patch.
>>
>> A patch to use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriate.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c b/drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c
>> index d22c022..87fe89c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c
>> @@ -1456,10 +1456,9 @@ static struct procfsentries {
>>
>> static void __init proc_init(void)
>> {
>> - int nelem = sizeof(procfsentries)/sizeof(procfsentries[0]);
>> int i;
>>
>> - for (i=0; i < nelem; i++) {
>> + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(procfsentries); i++) {
>> struct procfsentries *p = procfsentries + i;
>> p->procent = create_proc_entry(p->name, p->mode, NULL);
>> if (p->procent) p->procent->read_proc = p->read_proc;
>> @@ -1468,10 +1467,9 @@ static void __init proc_init(void)
>>
>> static void __exit proc_exit(void)
>> {
>> - int nelem = sizeof(procfsentries)/sizeof(procfsentries[0]);
>> int i;
>>
>> - for (i=nelem-1; i >= 0; i--) {
>> + for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(procfsentries) - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
>
> I would write such decrementing loops as :
>
> for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(procfsentries); --i >= 0; ) {
>
> Long time ago, that produced better code. I did not check recently though.

Why would you write "--i >= 0" instead of just "i--"? The size of an
array can't be negative.

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