On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 04:06:26PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If sysfs is active, it will use this device as parent, and the > > former parent device "dev" will be set as parent of the new > > "device" struct member. > Why not rename "dev" to "parent" so "dev" becomes what we expect it to > be? The two members being of the same type, keeping it that way seems > error-prone to me. Indeed, that's going to be hard to follow with nothing in the names that says which is which. Another option that some subsystems use is to add the subsystem specific device with a name like gpio_dev that indicates it's the subsystem version of the device.
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