linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] block: introduce device_add_of

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Message-ID: <Zv0MkM1R4tglpWwY@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 02:04:16 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] block: introduce device_add_of_disk()

On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 10:46:46AM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Very happy you like it, yes I wasn't sure what was the correct way to
> introduce the helper. If you notice in the blkdev.h we have also add_disk()
> that is a static inline wrapper for device_add_disk().
> 
> Wonder if device_add_disk() should have the same treatement? No idea if
> it would cause problem with symbol with external modules, that is why I
> used the wrapper.

We could make it an inline wrapper, but it's not in a high performance
path so there isn't really much of a point in doing so.  I don't
remember why it was done for add_disk.