[U-Boot] A minor question on a Driver Model function

[Simon Glass]

Hi Masahiro,

On 12 September 2014 05:25, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
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> I have a qustion about lists_driver_lookup_name() function.
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>         for (entry = drv; entry != drv + n_ents; entry++) {
>                 if (strncmp(name, entry->name, len))
>                         continue;
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>                 /* Full match */
>                 if (len == strlen(entry->name))
>                         return entry;
>         }
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> Why is this not like follows?
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>         for (entry = drv; entry != drv + n_ents; entry++) {
>                 if (!strcmp(name, entry->name))
>                         return entry;
>         }

I think that code was there from the beginning. Marek might have
written it...the original series that I did as an RFC was here.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/239255/

Might worth a patch.

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> It seems equivalent to the former and simpler.
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> Am I missing something?
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> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada
>

Regards,
Simon