On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:13:31AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Greg KH <gre...@suse.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 05:36:18PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:02:06 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:13:34AM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > >> > > Grant Likely recently introduced the module_platform_driver macro > >> > > which can be > >> > > used to eliminate a few lines on boilerplate code in platform driver > >> > > modules. > >> > > The same approach can be used to do the same for other bus type > >> > > drivers. > >> > > > >> > > The first patch of this series generalizes the module_platform_driver > >> > > macro and > >> > > introduces the module_driver macro. It is similar to > >> > > module_platform_driver > >> > > macro but has two additional parameters to pass in the driver register > >> > > and > >> > > unregister function. The intend is that this macro is used to > >> > > construct bus > >> > > specific macros for generating the driver register/unregister > >> > > boilerplate code. > >> > > > >> > > The next two patches in this series add the module_i2c_driver and > >> > > module_spi_driver macro which use the module_driver macro to generate > >> > > the I2C > >> > > and SPI driver boilerplate code. > >> > > > >> > > The last two patches convert the driver found in the IIO framework to > >> > > use the > >> > > new module_i2c_driver and module_spi_driver macros to demonstrate their > >> > > potential and remove over 700 lines of code. > >> > > > >> > > While this series only introduces these kind of helper macros for I2C > >> > > and SPI > >> > > bus drivers the same scheme should be applicable to most other bus > >> > > driver types. > >> > > For example PCI and USB seem to be good candidates. > >> > > > >> > > It probably makes sense to merge the first three patches together. The > >> > > last two > >> > > can probably, since this is not urgent, wait until the first three > >> > > have reached > >> > > mainline. > >> > > >> > Nice, I like this, unless people object, I'll merge the first patch to > >> > the driver-core tree. > >> > > >> > I'll gladly take the i2c and spi patches as well if the subsystem > >> > maintainers there don't object, and I'll work on the USB patch as well. > >> > >> No objection from me (for i2c). > > > > Wonderful, thanks for letting me know. > > Yes, please take the spi patch too.
Ok, will go queue these up, thanks. greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ spi-devel-general mailing list spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spi-devel-general
