alist: Add a function to empty the list

Sometimes it is useful to empty the list without de-allocating any of
the memory used, e.g. when the list will be re-populated immediately
afterwards.

Add a new function for this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/alist.h b/include/alist.h
index 0090b9c0eb1..c639e42ab7d 100644
--- a/include/alist.h
+++ b/include/alist.h
@@ -275,6 +275,13 @@ bool alist_chk_ptr(const struct alist *lst, const void *ptr);
 	     _pos++)
 
 /**
+ * alist_empty() - Empty an alist
+ *
+ * This removes all entries from the list, without changing the allocated size
+ */
+void alist_empty(struct alist *lst);
+
+/**
  * alist_init() - Set up a new object list
  *
  * Sets up a list of objects, initially empty