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Message-ID: <20150520081651.GA2997@sudip-PC>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 13:46:52 +0530
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 WIP 4/5] i2c-parport: use new parport device model
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 09:57:24AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Sudip,
>
> On Wed, 6 May 2015 15:46:16 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
<snip>
> > +static struct pardev_cb i2c_parport_cb = {
> > + .flags = PARPORT_FLAG_EXCL,
> > + .irq_func = i2c_parport_irq,
> > +};
>
> There's no reason for this variable to be global. It is only needed
> temporarily at attach time if I understand correctly, so it should be
> local to function i2c_parport_attach().
yes, this is only like a placeholder of the function pointers.
will make it local in the patch. (I guess WIP is over)
>
> > +
<snip>
> > +static int i2c_parport_probe(struct pardevice *par_dev)
> > +{
> > + if (strcmp(par_dev->name, "i2c-parport"))
> > + return -ENODEV;
> > + return 0;
> > +}
>
> I'm wondering, is there any reason why this can't be automated by the
> driver core part of the code? Most drivers will simply compare
> drv->name with par_dev->name, which could be done in function
> parport_probe() when no custom probe function is provided.
yes, it can be done. I will add that in the patch.
>
> Now I see that you use the existence of the probe callback to decide
> that the driver implements the device driver model. I suppose you could
> use match_port instead, except that for some reason the paride driver
> doesn't implement one. Maybe it should, or maybe you can check of the
> presence of either to decide that this is a device model driver.
as Dan suggested I am checking on devmodel now, instead of the existence
of probe, so what you are suggestiong now can definitely be done with
very small change.
>
> > +
> > static struct parport_driver i2c_parport_driver = {
> > .name = "i2c-parport",
> > - .attach = i2c_parport_attach,
> > + .match_port = i2c_parport_attach,
> > .detach = i2c_parport_detach,
> > + .probe = i2c_parport_probe,
> > };
> >
> > /* ----- Module loading, unloading and information ------------------------ */
>
> Tested OK on my ADM1032 evaluation board.
>
> Tested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Thanks again.
regards
sudip
>
> --
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support
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