linux-kernel - Re: Driver core: remove get

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Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:27:14 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver core: remove get_bus()

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:02:07PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:38:50 -0700,
> Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> 
> > get_bus() should not be globally visable as it is not used by anything
> > other than drivers/base/bus.c.  This patch removes the visability of it,
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> > and renames it to match all of the other *_get() functions in the
> > kernel.
> 
> What about get_device() and get_driver()? (Not that I want to change
> those, but I think the driver core should stick to one naming
> convention.)

Yes, we should stick to one convention, that's why I made these changes.
Also they were self-contained, as you mention, it would be much harder
to change get_device :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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