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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2007-10-26 16:54:31 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2008-02-06 16:29:59 +1100
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parent58119068cb27ef7513f80aff44b62a3a8f40ef5f (diff)
[POWERPC] Add of_get_next_parent()
Iterating through a device node's parents is simple enough, but dealing with the refcounts properly is a little ugly, and replicating that logic is asking for someone to get it wrong or forget it all together, eg: while (dn != NULL) { /* loop body */ tmp = of_get_parent(dn); of_node_put(dn); dn = tmp; } So add of_get_next_parent(), inspired by of_get_next_child(). The contract is that it returns the parent and drops the reference on the current node, this makes the loop look like: while (dn != NULL) { /* loop body */ dn = of_get_next_parent(dn); } Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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