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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Cc: Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Frank Davis <fdavis@si.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] add i2c_clientname()
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 17:01:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030403010112.GA5407@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030402165116.GA24766@bytesex.org>

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:51:16PM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> 
> This patch just adds a #define and a inline function to hide the
> "i2c_client->name" => "i2c_client->dev.name" move introduced by
> the recent i2c updates.  That makes it easier to build i2c drivers
> on both 2.4 and 2.5 kernels.

This is going to be a harder and harder problem as time goes on, and as
the i2c core changes over time.  I would just give up now :)

> +#define I2C_DEVNAME(str)   .dev = { .name = str }

Why this macro?  You don't use it in your driver, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-03  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-02 16:51 [patch] add i2c_clientname() Gerd Knorr
2003-04-03  1:01 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-04-03  8:57   ` Gerd Knorr
2003-04-08 23:04 ` Greg KH

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