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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:04:29 -0300
From: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@...e.org>, Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>, greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] greybus: constify the struct device_type usage
On 25 Feb 09:33, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 05:22:39PM -0300, Ricardo B. Marliere wrote:
> > On 24 Feb 09:43, Alex Elder wrote:
> > > On 2/19/24 6:40 AM, Ricardo B. Marliere wrote:
> > > > Since commit aed65af1cc2f ("drivers: make device_type const"), the driver
> > > > core can properly handle constant struct device_type. Move the
> > > > greybus_hd_type, greybus_module_type, greybus_interface_type,
> > > > greybus_control_type, greybus_bundle_type and greybus_svc_type variables to
> > > > be constant structures as well, placing it into read-only memory which can
> > > > not be modified at runtime.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@...liere.net>
> > >
> > > This looks good to me. Assuming it compiles cleanly:
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
> >
> > Hi Alex!
> >
> > Thanks for reviewing.
> >
> > >
> > > On another subject:
> > >
> > > Johan might disagree, but I think it would be nice to make
> > > the definitions of the Greybus device types as static (private)
> > > and make the is_gb_host_device() etc. functions real functions
> > > rather than static inlines in <linux/greybus.h>.
> > >
> > > It turns out that all of the is_gb_*() functions are called only
> > > from drivers/greybus/core.c; they could all be moved there rather
> > > than advertising them in <linux/greybus.h>.
> >
> > I guess it depends whether they would be used somewhere else in the
> > future. Perhaps it was left there with that intention when it was first
> > being developed? I agree, though. Will happily send a patch with this if
> > desired.
>
> Let's clean the code up for what we have today. If it's needed in the
> future, we can move the structures then.
Sounds good to me, will send a v2 then!
Thank you,
- Ricardo.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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