linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] staging: comedi: Add helper macro for comedi pci driver boilerplate

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Message-ID: <ADE657CA350FB648AAC2C43247A983F0020698A17E6A@AUSP01VMBX24.collaborationhost.net>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2012 12:34:14 -0500
From:	H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@...ionengravers.com>
To:	Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
CC:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@....co.uk>,
	"fmhess@...rs.sourceforge.net" <fmhess@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] staging: comedi: Add helper macro for comedi pci driver
 boilerplate

On Friday, May 11, 2012 10:32 AM, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 2012-05-11 18:07, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>> +int comedi_pci_driver_register(struct comedi_driver *comedi_driver,
>> +		struct pci_driver *pci_driver)
>> +{
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	ret = comedi_driver_register(comedi_driver);
>> +	if (ret<  0)
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>> +	pci_driver->name = comedi_driver->driver_name;
>
> I think it would be better if the driver modules that call this function 
> already had pci_driver->name initialized statically.

I agree, but this is how all the pci drivers do it now.

To change this will require auditing all the comedi pci drivers and adding
the static name.

Regards,
Hartley