From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] mfd: bd71837: mfd driver for ROHM BD71837 PMIC Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 07:56:48 +0100 Message-ID: <20180703065648.GB20176@dell> References: <7e1888375c979accc402e9ddd7316e528b2ac52c.1529404894.git.matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com> <20180626112455.GC2118@localhost.localdomain> <20180626120306.GD2118@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Enric Balletbo Serra Cc: matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com, Michael Turquette , sboyd@kernel.org, Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Liam Girdwood , Mark Brown , Matti Vaittinen , Arnd Bergmann , Dmitry Torokhov , Sebastian Reichel , chenjh@rock-chips.com, Andrey Smirnov , Linus Walleij , Kate Stewart , Heiko =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=FCbner?= , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , linux-kernel List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Enric Balletbo Serra wrote: > Hi Matti, > > Missatge de Matti Vaittinen del > dia dt., 26 de juny 2018 a les 14:03: > > > > Hello Again Eric, > > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 01:40:40PM +0200, Enric Balletbo Serra wrote: > > > Hi Matti, > > > Missatge de Matti Vaittinen del > > > dia dt., 26 de juny 2018 a les 13:25: > > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:06:33AM +0200, Enric Balletbo Serra wrote: > > > > > Missatge de Matti Vaittinen del > > > > > dia dt., 19 de juny 2018 a les 12:57: > > > > > > > > > > +static const struct of_device_id bd71837_of_match[] = { > > > > > > + { .compatible = "rohm,bd71837", .data = (void *)0}, > > > > > > + { }, > > > > > > > > > > nit: { /* sentinel */ } > > > > > > > > I am sorry but I didn't quite get the point here. Could you please > > > > explain what did you expect to be added here? > > > > > > > > > > It's a nit but It is a good practice to specify that the last entry is > > > a sentinel. Just this. > > > > > > +static const struct of_device_id bd71837_of_match[] = { > > > + { .compatible = "rohm,bd71837", .data = (void *)0}, > > > + { /* sentinel */ } > > > +}; > > > > Oh, I see. Finally something I can disagree =) I quickly opened few > > random drivers which declare match table. None of them practiced this > > good practice. So I guess it is not such a standard after all. And I > > guess the meaning of last entry in match table should be quite obvious. > > Adding the comment /* sentinel */ sounds like stating the obvious at > > best - at worst it gets one just to wonder what the "sentinel" means =) > > > > git grep "/\* sentinel \*/" > > Anyway, I marked this change as a nit, so you don't need to change. I > just commented because at some point I received a "complain" when I > didn't add it. But this is up to the maintainer and I am not sure if > the "complain" was received in this subsystem :) Certainly not from me. I don't agree with the practice. I'd like to know who is enforcing this! -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Linaro Services Technical Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog