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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 17:01:13 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Cc: Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Frank Davis <fdavis@si.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] add i2c_clientname()
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:51:16PM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> 
> This patch just adds a #define and a inline function to hide the
> "i2c_client->name" => "i2c_client->dev.name" move introduced by
> the recent i2c updates.  That makes it easier to build i2c drivers
> on both 2.4 and 2.5 kernels.

This is going to be a harder and harder problem as time goes on, and as
the i2c core changes over time.  I would just give up now :)

> +#define I2C_DEVNAME(str)   .dev = { .name = str }

Why this macro?  You don't use it in your driver, right?

thanks,

greg k-h