linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] staging: ccree: simplify access to struct device

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Date:   Tue, 3 Oct 2017 13:43:53 +0300
From:   Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ofir Drang <ofir.drang@....com>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] staging: ccree: simplify access to struct device

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 10:03 +0100, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>> Introduce a DEV macro to retrieve struct device from private
>> data structure in preparation to replacing custom logging
>> macros with proper dev_dbg and friends which require struct
>> device.
> []
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_driver.h b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_driver.h
> []
>> @@ -103,6 +103,8 @@
>>  #define SSI_LOG_DEBUG(format, ...) do {} while (0)
>>  #endif
>>
>> +#define DEV(drvdata) ((&(drvdata)->plat_dev->dev))
>
> The name seems not particularly descriptive.
> It seems a longer name would
> not be too bad.
>
> Perhaps
>
> static inline struct device *drvdata_to_dev(struct ssi_drvdata *drvdata)
> {
>         return &drvdata->plat_dev->dev;
> }
>

Good point.

Fixed in v2.

Thanks,
Gilad


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