Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 4 authors, 2014-02-05

[PATCH] of: add function to count number of u32 elements in a property

From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
Date: 2014-01-17 14:45:37
Also in: linux-devicetree, lkml

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:04:42PM +0000, Heiko St?bner wrote:
The need to know the number of array elements in a property is
a common pattern. To prevent duplication of open-coded implementations
add a helper function that also centralises strict sanity checking
and DTB format details.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
---
Hi Mark,
did you mean it like this? I've tested it with the sram-reserve change and
it made the part of the determining the number elements a lot nicer :-)
Yes! This looks pretty nice! :)
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
 drivers/of/base.c  |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/of.h |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
index f807d0e..0f40ea5 100644
--- a/drivers/of/base.c
+++ b/drivers/of/base.c
@@ -920,6 +920,38 @@ int of_property_read_u32_index(const struct device_node *np,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_property_read_u32_index);
 
 /**
+ * of_property_count_u32_elems - Count the number of u32 values in a property
+ *
+ * @np:		device node from which the property value is to be read.
+ * @propname:	name of the property to be searched.
+ *
+ * Search for a property in a device node and count the number of u32 elements
+ * in it. Returns number of elements on sucess, -EINVAL if the property does
+ * not exist or its length does not match a multiple of u32 and -ENODATA if the
+ * property does not have a value.
+ */
+int of_property_count_u32_elems(const struct device_node *np,
+				const char *propname)
+{
+	int elem_size = sizeof(u32);
+	int len;
+	struct property *prop = of_find_property(np, propname, &len);
+
+	if (!prop)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (!prop->value)
+		return -ENODATA;
+
+	if (prop->length % elem_size != 0) {
+		pr_err("size of %s is not a multiple of u32\n", propname);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	return len / elem_size;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_property_count_u32_elems);
As Rob said in his reply, it would be nice to split this into a static
helper that took elem size as a parameter, so we can have the full suite
of of_property_count_{u8,u16,u32,u64}_elems.

Also, I think you can get rid of len and always use prop->length, as
other helpers seem to do.

Cheers for putting this together!

Mark.
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