linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/14] regulator: 88pm8607: avoid to use constraint name in driver

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Message-ID: <20110418143044.GF2466@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:30:45 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...vell.com>
Cc:	sameo@...ux.intel.com, haojian.zhuang@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com,
	a.zummo@...ertech.it, johnpol@....mipt.ru, cbou@...l.ru,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, lrg@...mlogic.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] regulator: 88pm8607: avoid to use constraint
 name in driver

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:04:11PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> Avoid to use constraint name in driver. So use driver_data instead to
> store regulator name in platform driver.

If this is something that's present in the current driver it should be
fixed for 2.6.39 so should be a patch at the start of the series which
can be applied separately to the others.

> +		/* pdata->driver_data stores the name of regulator */
> +		if (!strcmp(info->desc.name, pdata->driver_data))
>  			break;

Why not just use #defines in the header?  It'd be less error prone if
nothing else.
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