linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] spi: altera: move driver name string to header file

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Message-ID: <20200611140301.GH4671@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:03:01 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        trix@...hat.com, hao.wu@...el.com, matthew.gerlach@...ux.intel.com,
        russell.h.weight@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] spi: altera: move driver name string to header file

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:25:10AM +0800, Xu Yilun wrote:
> This allows other driver to reuse the name string for spi-altera
> platform device creation.

This is a very unusual thing to do, normally we just have the users use
the strong directly.  It feels like if we are going to change this idiom
we should do so globally but that seems like far more trouble thanit's
worth.

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