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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: mmc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:15:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225343754.5496.14.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C4E7021A-E5BA-4204-BDC1-D2DCA8CCEE1A@holtmann.org>

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 05:37 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Harvey,
> >
> > A lot of these helpers don't seem to add that much, would you care for
> > a patch removing them Pierre?
> >
> > Specifically sdio_func_id, sdio_get/set_drvdata don't have that many
> > users.
> 
> I prefer if we keep them. Since they take the proper parameter.  
> Otherwise the driver has to always got func->dev for everything. Most  
> SDIO drivers care of the function and not about the struct device  
> underneath it.
> 

Sure, it just seemed odd to have a wrapper around a wrapper.

Cheers,

Harvey


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30  1:20 mmc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() Kay Sievers
2008-10-30  1:48 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-30  4:37   ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-30  5:15     ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2008-10-30  9:09   ` Pierre Ossman
2008-10-30  9:06 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-10-30  9:21   ` Kay Sievers
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-25 22:50 Kay Sievers
2009-02-02 20:09 ` Pierre Ossman

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