linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce module_nd

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Date:   Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:11:18 +0100
From:   Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux NV-DIMM Mailing List <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce module_nd_driver

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:22:57AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> What is the point?  It saves a hand fulk of lines, while making
> the code both harder to read and harder to extend.

In the end it's just style alignment with most of the other "busses"
in the kernel, like pci, of, acpi, platform and so on...

But yes I admit it's not a huge win. For the harder to read part, I
doubt it. A quick:
git grep -E module_.*._driver drivers/ | wc -l
has 3896 hit's, so it's not that uncommon ;-)

But anyways, it's just code churn I came up with while being
frustrated hunting down a bug in this subsystem.

Byte,
	   Johannes
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