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

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Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:14:07 +0100
From:	Jesper Nilsson <Jesper.Nilsson@...s.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: chris: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(),
	dev_set_name()

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:53:59PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:01:36PM +0100, Jesper Nilsson wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:38:40AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > This patch is part of a larger patch series which will remove
> > > the "char bus_id[20]" name string from struct device. The device
> > > name is managed in the kobject anyway, and without any size
> > > limitation, and just needlessly copied into "struct device".
> > 
> > Thanks, but I think that since this driver has been broken a long time
> > it is high time to fix it, and I think the fix removes the need for your patch.
> > 
> > Greg, could you please look this patch over?
> > 
> > 
> > [CRISv32] Fix IOP fw-loader to use platform_device.
> > 
> > Change IOP fw-loader to use platform_device instead of
> > raw device, which should be more correct usage.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Andersson <stefan.andersson@...s.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>
> 
> Looks sane to me.  Want me to take it through my tree, or will you be
> submitting it?

Thanks, good to hear, I'll take it into the CRIS-tree.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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