On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 05:36:18PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:02:06 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:13:34AM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > > > Grant Likely recently introduced the module_platform_driver macro which can be > > > used to eliminate a few lines on boilerplate code in platform driver modules. > > > The same approach can be used to do the same for other bus type drivers. > > > > > > The first patch of this series generalizes the module_platform_driver macro and > > > introduces the module_driver macro. It is similar to module_platform_driver > > > macro but has two additional parameters to pass in the driver register and > > > unregister function. The intend is that this macro is used to construct bus > > > specific macros for generating the driver register/unregister boilerplate code. > > > > > > The next two patches in this series add the module_i2c_driver and > > > module_spi_driver macro which use the module_driver macro to generate the I2C > > > and SPI driver boilerplate code. > > > > > > The last two patches convert the driver found in the IIO framework to use the > > > new module_i2c_driver and module_spi_driver macros to demonstrate their > > > potential and remove over 700 lines of code. > > > > > > While this series only introduces these kind of helper macros for I2C and SPI > > > bus drivers the same scheme should be applicable to most other bus driver types. > > > For example PCI and USB seem to be good candidates. > > > > > > It probably makes sense to merge the first three patches together. The last two > > > can probably, since this is not urgent, wait until the first three have reached > > > mainline. > > > > Nice, I like this, unless people object, I'll merge the first patch to > > the driver-core tree. > > > > I'll gladly take the i2c and spi patches as well if the subsystem > > maintainers there don't object, and I'll work on the USB patch as well. > > No objection from me (for i2c). Wonderful, thanks for letting me know. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
