linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 04/10] tpm: rename chip->dev to chip->pdev

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Message-ID: <20141110174511.GA5296@obsidianresearch.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:45:11 -0700
From:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
To:	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>, Ashley Lai <ashley@...leylai.com>,
	Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@...horst.net>,
	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	josh.triplett@...el.com, christophe.ricard@...il.com,
	jason.gunthorpe@...idianresearch.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/10] tpm: rename chip->dev to chip->pdev

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 02:49:48PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Rename chip->dev to chip->pdev to make it explicit that this not the
> character device but actually represents the platform device.

I don't really have time to take a detailed look at this for a few
weeks, but I like this entire patch set.

 
> -		if (try_module_get(pos->dev->driver->owner)) {
> +		if (try_module_get(pos->pdev->driver->owner)) {
>  			chip = pos;
>  			break;

Yes, this needs to be pdev

>  	if (test_and_set_bit(0, &chip->is_open)) {
> -		dev_dbg(chip->dev, "Another process owns this TPM\n");
> +		dev_dbg(chip->pdev, "Another process owns this TPM\n");
>  		return -EBUSY;

This should be moved to the class dev, ie it should ultimately say dev_dbg(&chip->dev,..

Similar comments all over the place.

Jason
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