linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] rtc: add devm_rtc_device

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Message-ID: <5137800F.1000702@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:42:39 -0800
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@...dia.com>
CC:	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>,
	'Andrew Morton' <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	'Tejun Heo' <tj@...nel.org>, 'Greg KH' <greg@...ah.com>,
	'Alessandro Zummo' <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	"rtc-linux@...glegroups.com" <rtc-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] rtc: add devm_rtc_device_{register,unregister}()

On 03/05/13 22:03, Venu Byravarasu wrote:
>
>> +/**
>> + * devm_rtc_device_register - resource managed rtc_device_register()
>> + * @name: the name of the device
>> + * @dev: the device to register
>> + * @ops: the rtc operations structure
>> + * @owner: the module owner
>> + *
>> + * @return a struct rtc on success, or an ERR_PTR on error
>> + *
>> + * Managed rtc_device_register(). The rtc_device returned from this
>> function
>> + * are automatically freed on driver detach. See rtc_device_register()
>> + * for more information.
>> + */
>> +
>> +struct rtc_device *devm_rtc_device_register(const char *name,
>> +					struct device *dev,
> As most of devm_* functions use  " struct device *dev" as their first param,
> why not this function also modified to be in sync with them?

I suspect it's because the signature matches rtc_device_register(). This
way you can do a simple search and replace and avoid having to reorder
arguments.

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