Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:46:50 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/15] genirq: Add runtime power management support for IRQ chips | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote: > On 17/03/16 15:13, Jon Hunter wrote:
>>>> struct irq_chip { >>>> + struct device *parent; >>> >>> Nit: Please don't call this just "parent". We have parent fields in >>> irq_data and irq_domain structures, and they always are a pointer to the >>> same type, indicating some form of stacking. Here, we're pointing to a >>> different type altogether... >>> >>> How about calling it "dev", or "device" instead? It would make it much >>> clearer that when crossing that pointer, we're in another subsystem >>> altogether. >> >> I will defer to Linus W here, as it was his request we make this >> 'parent' and not 'dev'. See ... >> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=145035839623442&w=2 > > Well, that contradicts the way use use the word "parent" in the IRQ > subsystem, I guess. I'd settle for parent_device or something along > those lines (but keep in mind I'm really bad at naming things). > > Anyway, enough bikeshedding... ;-)
I'm happy with .parent_device.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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