linux-kernel - Re: mmc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set

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Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:15:54 -0700
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Pierre Ossman <drzeus@...eus.cx>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: mmc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(),
 dev_set_name()

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 05:37 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Harvey,
> >
> > A lot of these helpers don't seem to add that much, would you care for
> > a patch removing them Pierre?
> >
> > Specifically sdio_func_id, sdio_get/set_drvdata don't have that many
> > users.
> 
> I prefer if we keep them. Since they take the proper parameter.  
> Otherwise the driver has to always got func->dev for everything. Most  
> SDIO drivers care of the function and not about the struct device  
> underneath it.
> 

Sure, it just seemed odd to have a wrapper around a wrapper.

Cheers,

Harvey

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