From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: remove conditionals around devicetree pointers
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:17:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110126031734.GA1636@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110126015414.31133.56437.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:02:02PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> Having conditional around the of_match_table and the of_node pointers
> turns out to make driver code use ugly #ifdef blocks. Drop the
> conditionals and remove the #ifdef blocks from the affected drivers.
>
> Also tidy up minor whitespace issues within the same hunks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> ---
>
> I've held off doing this since I didn't want to needlessly increase
> the size of struct device and struct device_driver for users who don't
> use CONFIG_OF. However, its quibbling about a tiny amount of memory,
> and #ifdef'ing it out this way is ugly for driver code.
>
> Alternately, if I should be concerned about the extra memory, I could
> define some macros/inlines similar to how CONFIG_NUMA is handled.
No objection from me, I was wondering when you would get around to doing
this :)
If you want me to take this in my tree, I'd be glad to, otherwise feel
free to send it through yours, and add a:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
to it.
Nice job,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-26 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-26 2:02 [PATCH] driver-core: remove conditionals around devicetree pointers Grant Likely
2011-01-26 3:17 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-01-26 4:19 ` Grant Likely
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