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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] kernel.h: provide array iterator
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>,
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Date:   Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:45:43 -0700
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On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 16:27 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 2018-03-15 11:00, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> > Simplify array iteration with a helper to iterate each entry in an array.
> > Utilise the existing ARRAY_SIZE macro to identify the length of the array
> > and pointer arithmetic to process each item as a for loop.

I recall getting negative feedback on a similar proposal
a decade ago:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/13/25

Not sure this is different.