Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: Add helper macro for comedi pci driver boilerplate

[Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>]

On 2012-05-11 18:34, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Friday, May 11, 2012 10:32 AM, Ian Abbott wrote:
>> On 2012-05-11 18:07, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>>> +int comedi_pci_driver_register(struct comedi_driver *comedi_driver,
>>> +		struct pci_driver *pci_driver)
>>> +{
>>> +	int ret;
>>> +
>>> +	ret = comedi_driver_register(comedi_driver);
>>> +	if (ret<   0)
>>> +		return ret;
>>> +
>>> +	pci_driver->name = comedi_driver->driver_name;
>>
>> I think it would be better if the driver modules that call this function
>> already had pci_driver->name initialized statically.
>
> I agree, but this is how all the pci drivers do it now.
>
> To change this will require auditing all the comedi pci drivers and adding
> the static name.

But if you're going to be calling this function from those drivers 
anyway, you might as well add the static names at the same time!  Saves 
another round of patches.

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