Re: [PATCH 5/6] spi: altera: move driver name string to header file

From: Xu Yilun
Date: Thu Jun 11 2020 - 23:29:02 EST


On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 03:03:01PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:25:10AM +0800, Xu Yilun wrote:
> > This allows other driver to reuse the name string for spi-altera
> > platform device creation.
>
> This is a very unusual thing to do, normally we just have the users use
> the strong directly. It feels like if we are going to change this idiom
> we should do so globally but that seems like far more trouble thanit's
> worth.

Sure, I'll discard this patch and just use string for spi-altera device
creation.

Thanks,
Yilun.