Re: [PATCH v2 07/17] driver core: Add fwnode_init()

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Tue Dec 08 2020 - 01:35:15 EST


On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 12:36:43PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 11:54 AM Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:25:15AM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:26 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 06:02:22PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > > > > There are multiple locations in the kernel where a struct fwnode_handle
> > > > > is initialized. Add fwnode_init() so that we have one way of
> > > > > initializing a fwnode_handle.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > drivers/acpi/property.c | 2 +-
> > > > > drivers/acpi/scan.c | 2 +-
> > > > > drivers/base/swnode.c | 2 +-
> > > > > drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c | 8 ++++----
> > > > > include/linux/fwnode.h | 6 ++++++
> > > > > include/linux/of.h | 2 +-
> > > > > kernel/irq/irqdomain.c | 2 +-
> > > > > 7 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > In this series, I didn't find any extension of fwnode_init() to be it more
> > > > than simple assignment. This change looks to me like unnecessary churn and
> > > > obfuscation rather than improvement.
> > > >
> > > > "...ops = &...;" is pretty standard in the kernel to initialize ops
> > > > structures.
> > >
> > > Subsequent patches make fwnode_init() do more stuff.
> >
> > But not in this series, right?
>
> In this series. The very next patch - Patch 8/17 :)

Thanks, sorry for the noise.

>
> -Saravana