From: Jesper Nilsson <Jesper.Nilsson@axis.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: chris: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:14:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081118081407.GA4856@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081117225359.GB10377@kroah.com>
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:53:59PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:01:36PM +0100, Jesper Nilsson wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:38:40AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > This patch is part of a larger patch series which will remove
> > > the "char bus_id[20]" name string from struct device. The device
> > > name is managed in the kobject anyway, and without any size
> > > limitation, and just needlessly copied into "struct device".
> >
> > Thanks, but I think that since this driver has been broken a long time
> > it is high time to fix it, and I think the fix removes the need for your patch.
> >
> > Greg, could you please look this patch over?
> >
> >
> > [CRISv32] Fix IOP fw-loader to use platform_device.
> >
> > Change IOP fw-loader to use platform_device instead of
> > raw device, which should be more correct usage.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Andersson <stefan.andersson@axis.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
>
> Looks sane to me. Want me to take it through my tree, or will you be
> submitting it?
Thanks, good to hear, I'll take it into the CRIS-tree.
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-07 0:38 chris: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() Kay Sievers
2008-11-07 12:01 ` Jesper Nilsson
2008-11-17 22:53 ` Greg KH
2008-11-18 8:14 ` Jesper Nilsson [this message]
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