From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH, v2] Xen: consolidate and simplify struct xenbus_driver instantiation Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:36:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20120103203637.GF17472@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <4EF3018D020000780006986E@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <1324547820.7877.71.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <4EF327E2020000780006993E@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <1324555060.7877.84.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <1324565067.2897.2.camel@bwh-desktop> <1324586301.13113.3.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ben Hutchings , Jan Beulich , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , "davem@davemloft.net" , "dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com" , "FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jens Axboe , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Ian Campbell Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1324586301.13113.3.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 08:38:21PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 14:44 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 11:57 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 11:51 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > > >>> On 22.12.11 at 10:57, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 09:08 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > > >> The 'name', 'owner', and 'mod_name' members are redundant with the > > > > >> identically named fields in the 'driver' sub-structure. Rather than > > > > >> switching each instance to specify these fields explicitly, introduce > > > > >> a macro to simplify this. > > > > >> > > > > >> Eliminate further redundancy by allowing the drvname argument to > > > > >> DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() to be blank (in which case the first entry from > > > > >> the ID table will be used for .driver.name). > > > > > > > > > > Any reason not to always use DRV_NAME here (which is generally a bit > > > > > more specific e.g. "xen-foofront" rather than "foo") and rely on the id > > > > > table for the shorter names used in xenstore? > > > > > > > > That would imply that DRV_NAME is always defined, but I don't > > > > see this being the case. > > > > > > My mistake, I thought it was a Kbuild thing. > > > > You're maybe thinking of KBUILD_MODNAME. > > Yes, I think I was. Ian, are you OK with this patch? I think Jan needs to repost once more with the "pciback" -> DRV_NAME change and then it is OK? I've tested it with all backends, except the pciback one, and I see no regressions with 'xl' or 'xm' toolstack.