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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 07/17] driver core: Add fwnode_init()
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:26 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> 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@google.com>
> > ---
> > 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.

-Saravana

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