Re: [PATCH 02/16] treewide: rename match_string() -> __match_string()

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>]

(Trimming the lists but keeping lkml)

Quoting Alexandru Ardelean (2019-05-08 04:28:28)
> This change does a rename of match_string() -> __match_string().
> 
> There are a few parts to the intention here (with this change):
> 1. Align with sysfs_match_string()/__sysfs_match_string()
> 2. This helps to group users of `match_string()` into simple users:
>    a. those that use ARRAY_SIZE(_a) to specify the number of elements
>    b. those that use -1 to pass a NULL terminated array of strings
>    c. special users, which (after eliminating 1 & 2) are not that many
> 3. The final intent is to fix match_string()/__match_string() which is
>    slightly broken, in the sense that passing -1 or a positive value does
>    not make any difference: the iteration will stop at the first NULL
>    element.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>
> ---
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> index 96053a96fe2f..0b6c3d300411 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> @@ -2305,8 +2305,8 @@ bool clk_has_parent(struct clk *clk, struct clk *parent)
>         if (core->parent == parent_core)
>                 return true;
>  
> -       return match_string(core->parent_names, core->num_parents,
> -                           parent_core->name) >= 0;
> +       return __match_string(core->parent_names, core->num_parents,
> +                             parent_core->name) >= 0;

This is essentially ARRAY_SIZE(core->parent_names) so it should be fine
to put this back to match_string() later in the series.

>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clk_has_parent);
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/rockchip/clk.c b/drivers/clk/rockchip/clk.c
> index c3ad92965823..373f13e9cd83 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/rockchip/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/rockchip/clk.c
> @@ -276,8 +276,8 @@ static struct clk *rockchip_clk_register_frac_branch(
>                 struct clk *mux_clk;
>                 int ret;
>  
> -               frac->mux_frac_idx = match_string(child->parent_names,
> -                                                 child->num_parents, name);
> +               frac->mux_frac_idx = __match_string(child->parent_names,
> +                                                   child->num_parents, name);

I suspect this is the same as above, but Heiko can ack/confirm.

>                 frac->mux_ops = &clk_mux_ops;
>                 frac->clk_nb.notifier_call = rockchip_clk_frac_notifier_cb;
>