Re: [PATCH v2 10/21] ipmi: kcs_bmc: Turn the driver data-structures inside-out

Andrew Jeffery
2021-04-11T23:01:17Z

On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, at 04:56, Zev Weiss wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 01:25:26AM CDT, Zev Weiss wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 12:59:09AM CDT, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> >>On Fri, 9 Apr 2021, at 13:27, Zev Weiss wrote:
> >>>On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 01:27:41AM CDT, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> >>>>-struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc_ipmi_alloc(struct device *dev, int sizeof_priv, u32 channel);
> >>>>-struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc_ipmi_alloc(struct device *dev, int sizeof_priv, u32 channel)
> >>>>+int kcs_bmc_ipmi_attach_cdev(struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc);
> >>>
> >>>Errant declaration again?
> >>
> >>As previously explained.
> >>
> >
> >This one seems like a slightly different category, because...
> >
> >>>
> >>>>+int kcs_bmc_ipmi_attach_cdev(struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc)
> >
> >...it's immediately followed by the definition of the very same function
> >that it just declared, so I can't see how its presence or absence could
> >make any functional difference to anything. (So perhaps I should have
> >said "redundant" instead of "errant...again".)

This is is a small hack to fend off warnings from -Wmissing-declarations.

> >
> >It's fairly trivial of course given that it's gone by the end of the
> >series, but as long as there's going to be another iteration anyway it
> >seems like we might as well tidy it up?
> >
>
> Oh, and otherwise:
>
> Reviewed-by: Zev Weiss <zweiss@equinix.com>

Thanks.

Andrew