linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] irqchip/qcom-irq-combiner: Rename driver struct to end in

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Message-ID: <87ldp9m7la.ffs@tglx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:01:53 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com>,
 Agustin Vega-Frias
 <agustinv@...eaurora.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Markus
 Schneider-Pargmann <msp@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irqchip/qcom-irq-combiner: Rename driver struct to end
 in _driver

On Mon, Jun 30 2025 at 19:23, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The modpost section mismatch checks are more lax for objects that have a
> name that ends in "_probe". This is not justified here though, so rename

That's a truly bad design or lack of such.

Why can't this muck use foo_driver(name) foo_probe(name) annotations to
make it entirely clear what is tested for instead of oracling it out of
the name itself. That would make it too easy to understand and analyse.

Sigh...

Thanks,

        tglx