linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2.1] dw_dmac: make wrapper on of_dma_controller

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Date:	Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:46:39 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	spear-devel <spear-devel@...t.st.com>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.1] dw_dmac: make wrapper on of_dma_controller_register()

On 26 March 2013 22:42, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> Nowadays, besides removal of the -ENODEV checking, it makes probe
> function looks tidier.

Removal of -ENODEV is okay but am not sure if it makes code good :)

This is unnecessary abstraction for just calling a single routine. If that
part was bigger, i would have agreed but to me this wrapper is just
adding abstraction and nothing more.

--
viresh
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