Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] Introduce Intel RAPL cooling device driver

[Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:26:55 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 09:15 -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 08:26:38 -0700
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > +	if (NULL == rp->name || rp->flag &
> > > > RAPL_PRIMITIVE_DUMMY)
> > > 
> > > In Linux we do (rp->name == NULL), or even better yet (!rp->name),
> > > please fix that up here and elsewhere in the driver.
> > > 
> > I can fix that. I did that because checkpatch does not complain
> > about it. also it avoids common mistake as:
> > rp->name = NULL
> > 
> > > > +
> > > > +#define PRIMITIVE_INFO_INIT(p, m, s, i, u, f) {#p, m, s, i, u,
> > > > p, f}
> > > 
> > > C has named initializers, use them please.
> > > 
> > this macro can save lots of repeated text.
> 
> Use the macro.  Use named initializers in the macro.
> 
> #define PRIMITIVE_INFO_INIT(p, m, s, i, u, f)	\
> {						\
> 	.name = #p,				\
> 	.mask = m,				\
> 	.shift = s,				\
> 	.id = i,				\
> 	.unit = u,				\
> /*						\
> (hmm looks like a bug ?)			\
> 	enum rapl_primitives pm_id;		\
> */						\
not a bug but you are right i can remove pm_id.

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Thanks,

Jacob