linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/19] driver:usb&net: add missing platform

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Date:	Tue, 21 May 2013 08:41:08 +0200
From:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	libo.chen@...wei.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	samuel@...tiz.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu, khc@...waw.pl,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, balbi@...com,
	sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
	brudley@...adcom.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lizefan@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] driver:usb&net: add missing platform_driver owner

Dear David Miller,

On Mon, 20 May 2013 23:26:19 -0700 (PDT), David Miller wrote:
> From: Libo Chen <libo.chen@...wei.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:42:00 +0800
> 
> > I find a lot of mistakes using struct platform_driver without owner.
> > So I pick up some of them including usb and net modules
> 
> Instead of doing it this way, which is obviously error prone and
> easy to forget, make platform_driver_register() be a macro which
> sets the module owner field then calls the real
> __platform_driver_register().

Or, maybe make the existing module_platform_driver() macro do this?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
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development, consulting, training and support.
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