of: add functions to count number of elements in a property

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 static function that also centralises strict sanity
checking and DTB format details, as well as a set of wrapper functions
for u8, u16, u32 and u64.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@bqreaders.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
index ff85450..8a2a55c 100644
--- a/drivers/of/base.c
+++ b/drivers/of/base.c
@@ -886,6 +886,38 @@ struct device_node *of_find_node_by_phandle(phandle handle)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_node_by_phandle);
 
 /**
+ * of_property_count_elems_of_size - Count the number of elements in a property
+ *
+ * @np:		device node from which the property value is to be read.
+ * @propname:	name of the property to be searched.
+ * @elem_size:	size of the individual element
+ *
+ * Search for a property in a device node and count the number of elements of
+ * size elem_size in it. Returns number of elements on sucess, -EINVAL if the
+ * property does not exist or its length does not match a multiple of elem_size
+ * and -ENODATA if the property does not have a value.
+ */
+int of_property_count_elems_of_size(const struct device_node *np,
+				const char *propname, int elem_size)
+{
+	struct property *prop = of_find_property(np, propname, NULL);
+
+	if (!prop)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (!prop->value)
+		return -ENODATA;
+
+	if (prop->length % elem_size != 0) {
+		pr_err("size of %s in node %s is not a multiple of %d\n",
+		       propname, np->full_name, elem_size);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	return prop->length / elem_size;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_property_count_elems_of_size);
+
+/**
  * of_find_property_value_of_size
  *
  * @np:		device node from which the property value is to be read.