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

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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 :)

-Saravana



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