Re: [PATCH, v2] Xen: consolidate and simplify structxenbus_driver instantiation

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 22.12.11 at 10:57, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 09:08 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> The 'name', 'owner', and 'mod_name' members are redundant with the
>> identically named fields in the 'driver' sub-structure. Rather than
>> switching each instance to specify these fields explicitly, introduce
>> a macro to simplify this.
>> 
>> Eliminate further redundancy by allowing the drvname argument to
>> DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() to be blank (in which case the first entry from
>> the ID table will be used for .driver.name).
> 
> Any reason not to always use DRV_NAME here (which is generally a bit
> more specific e.g. "xen-foofront" rather than "foo") and rely on the id
> table for the shorter names used in xenstore?

That would imply that DRV_NAME is always defined, but I don't
see this being the case.

Jan

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