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

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Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 11:14:03 +0800
From:   Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@...el.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
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 03:03:01PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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.

Sure, I'll discard this patch and just use string for spi-altera device
creation.

Thanks,
Yilun.