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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] drivercore: Add helper macro for platform_driver boilerplate
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 23:56:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111005065617.GA6824@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111004232403.10364.22050.stgit@ponder>

On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 05:26:55PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> For simple modules that contain a single platform_driver without any
> additional setup code then ends up being a block of duplicated
> boilerplate.  This patch adds a new macro, module_platform_driver(),
> which replaces the module_init()/module_exit() registrations with
> template functions.
> 
> This patch also converts all the relevant spi drivers to use the new
> macro.  There are a lot of drivers in the tree that are using this
> pattern and could be converted.
> 
> It also fixes up some incorrect section annotations where I found
> them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> ---
> 
> I think this is useful, and I like the diffstat that it produces.
> What does everyone else think of this approach?  I can do versions for
> i2c_drivers and spi_drivers too.
> 
> This is *not* tested very much.  I'm circulating mostly for review for
> now.

The idea looks sane to me, I like the diffstat it ends up creating, nice
job.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-05  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-04 23:26 [RFC] drivercore: Add helper macro for platform_driver boilerplate Grant Likely
2011-10-05  6:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-10-05 16:43   ` Grant Likely
2011-10-05 19:29     ` Greg KH
2011-12-04  8:39   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-12-04  9:36     ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-12-04 10:27       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-10-05  8:12 ` Magnus Damm
2011-10-05 10:02 ` Mark Brown
2011-10-05 16:42   ` Grant Likely
2011-10-05 21:37 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-10-06  0:58   ` Grant Likely
2011-10-06 11:40 ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-10-06 14:50 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-06 18:35 ` Tabi Timur-B04825

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