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SubjectRE: [PATCH 14/14] regulator: 88pm8607: avoid to use constraint name in driver


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Brown [mailto:broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com]
>Sent: 2011年4月19日 4:13 PM
>To: Haojian Zhuang
>Cc: Haojian Zhuang; sameo@linux.intel.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com; a.zummo@towertech.it; johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru;
>cbou@mail.ru; dwmw2@infradead.org; lrg@slimlogic.co.uk
>Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] regulator: 88pm8607: avoid to use constraint
>name in driver
>
>On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 07:45:06PM -0700, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
>
>> >I assume that by "platform driver" you mean the machine driver for
>the
>> >system? What I'm saying is that instead of using a string to match
>it'd
>> >be more normal to use an enum in the driver header, that way if
>someone
>> >typos the string or something then there will be a build failure
>whereas
>> >with strings like this there will only be a runtime failure.
>
>> It's nearly same whatever it's string or index number. In machine
>driver,
>> it's more convenient on using string. Otherwise, I still need to
>create
>
>You're saying it's more convenient but you're not saying why. I'd say
>that the lack of build time checking I mentioned is actually unhelpful.
>
>> a new integer array to store index since I transfer them into
>regulator data
>> by driver_data parameter in regulator_init_data.
>
>You already need to add a char * to store the name, adding an enum
>instead isn't a substantial difference...

OK. So I just need to switch to ID instead of name on these two patches.
Is it right?
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