linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] driver core: add a faux bus for use when a simple device/bus is needed

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Message-ID: <5da9a28a00b6ab3a756aff34dc872905acd610ad.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:51:25 -0500
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>, Andy Shevchenko	
 <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, 
 Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>, Liam Girdwood
 <lgirdwood@...il.com>, Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,  Mark Brown
 <broonie@...nel.org>, Maíra Canal
 <mairacanal@...eup.net>, Robin Murphy	 <robin.murphy@....com>, Simona
 Vetter <simona.vetter@...ll.ch>, Zijun Hu	 <quic_zijuhu@...cinc.com>,
 linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, 	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] driver core: add a faux bus for use when a
 simple device/bus is needed

Oops! I actually caught one small nitpick I didn't notice before when writing
up the bindings:

On Tue, 2025-02-04 at 12:09 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> +/**
> + * faux_device_create - create and register a faux device and driver
> + * @name: name of the device and driver we are adding
> + * @faux_ops: struct faux_driver_ops that the new device will call back into, can be NULL
> + *
> + * Create a new faux device and driver, both with the same name, and
> + * register them in the driver core properly.  The probe() callback of
> + * @faux_ops will be called with the new device that is created for the
> + * caller to do something with.
> + *
> + * Note, when this function is called, the functions specified in struct
> + * faux_ops will be called before the function returns, so be prepared for
> + * everything to be properly initialized before that point in time.
> + *
> + * Return:
> + * * NULL if an error happened with creating the device
> + * * pointer to a valid struct faux_device that is registered with sysfs
> + */
> +struct faux_device *faux_device_create(const char *name, struct faux_driver_ops *faux_ops)

^ Why not const struct faux_driver_ops? Doesn't seem like there's any need to
mutate faux_ops.

> +{
> +	struct device *dev;
> +	struct faux_object *faux_obj;
> +	struct faux_device *faux_dev;
> +	int name_size;
> +	int ret;
> +

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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