Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:08:11 -0500 | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] PCI: replace pci_dev::driver usage that gets the driver name |
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 09:29:36PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:17:59PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > [+to Oliver, Russell for eeh_driver_name() question below] > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:43:22PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > > From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> > > > > > > struct pci_dev::driver holds (apart from a constant offset) the same > > > data as struct pci_dev::dev->driver. With the goal to remove struct > > > pci_dev::driver to get rid of data duplication replace getting the > > > driver name by dev_driver_string() which implicitly makes use of struct > > > pci_dev::dev->driver.
> > Also, would you mind using "pci_dev.driver" instead of > > "pci_dev::driver"? AFAIK, the "::" operator is not actually part of > > C, so I think it's more confusing than useful. > > pci_dev.driver doesn't work either in C because pci_dev is a type and > not a variable.
Sure, "pci_dev.driver" is not strictly acceptable C unless you have a "struct pci_dev pci_dev", but it's pretty common.
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