Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:38:46 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Driver core: reduce duplicated code |
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On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > This makes the two similar functions platform_device_register_simple > and platform_device_register_data one line inline functions using a new > generic function platform_device_register_resndata. > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> > --- > Hello, > > still unsolved is the naming issue, what do you think about > platform_device_register?
We already have a platform_device_register() function :)
> I marked the new function as __init_or_module in a separate patch to > make reverting it a bit easier, still I think it should be possible to > fix the caller if a problem occurs. > > I changed the semantic slightly to only call > platform_device_add_resources if data != NULL instead of size != 0. The > idea is to support wrappers like: > > #define add_blablub(id, pdata) \ > platform_device_register_resndata(NULL, "blablub", id, \ > NULL, 0, pdata, sizeof(struct blablub_platform_data)) > > that don't fail if pdata=NULL. Ditto for res.
That's fine, but why would you want to have a #define for something like this? Is it really needed?
Anyway, this version looks fine to me, I'll go apply it.
thanks,
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