Re: [PATCH v2 01/16] of: device: make of_device_uevent_modalias() take a const device *

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On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 5:30 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> of_device_uevent_modalias() does not modify the device pointer passed to
> it, so mark it constant.  In order to properly do this, a number of
> busses need to have a modalias function added as they were attempting to
> just point to of_device_uevent_modalias instead of their bus-specific
> modalias function.  This is fine except if the prototype for a bus and
> device type modalias function diverges and then problems could happen.  To
> prevent all of that, just wrap the call to of_device_uevent_modalias()
> directly for each bus and device type individually.

Why not just put the wrapper function in the DT code instead of making
4 copies of it?

Rob



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