Re: [PATCH 00/20] usb: remove useless cast for driver.name

From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Cc: alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com, b-liu@ti.com, balbi@kernel.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, ludovic.desroches@microchip.com,
	mathias.nyman@intel.com, nicolas.ferre@microchip.com,
	slemieux.tyco@gmail.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, vz@mleia.com,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] usb: remove useless cast for driver.name
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 08:52:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200219075247.GE2090@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1582054383-35760-1-git-send-email-clabbe@baylibre.com>

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 07:32:43PM +0000, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> This serie remove a useless (char*) cast for some xxx_driver.name.
> pci_driver, device_driver, usb_composite_driver structures have a "name"
> member which is const char * and all the driver patched assigned to it a
> const char[] name, so the cast was bad and unnecessary.
> 
> Corentin Labbe (20):
>   usb: gadget: legacy: gmidi: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: legacy: inode: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: udc: amd5536udc_pci: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: at91_udc: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: dummy_hcd: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: fotg210-udc: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: fusb300_udc: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: goku_udc: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: lpc32xx_udc: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: m66592-udc: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: net2280: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: omap_udc: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: r8a66597-udc: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: gadget: renesas_usb3: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: host: ehci-pci: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: host: ohci-pci: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: host: sl811-hcd: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: host: uhci-pci: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: host: xhci-pci: remove useless cast for driver.name
>   usb: musb: core: remove useless cast for driver.name

Please do trivial conversions like this one in one patch per subsystem
(e.g. all of USB) instead of 20 one-line patches.

You may also want to refer to commit 8d790d740858 ("[PATCH] make
driver's name be const char *") for the historical background for this
in the commit message.

>  drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/gmidi.c       | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c       | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/amd5536udc_pci.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/at91_udc.c       | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c      | 4 ++--
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/fotg210-udc.c    | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/fusb300_udc.c    | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/goku_udc.c       | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/lpc32xx_udc.c    | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/m66592-udc.c     | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2280.c        | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/omap_udc.c       | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c   | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/renesas_usb3.c   | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c             | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/host/ohci-pci.c             | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/host/sl811-hcd.c            | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/host/uhci-pci.c             | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c             | 2 +-
>  drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c            | 2 +-
>  20 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

Thanks,
Johan