On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:13:31AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > Yes, please take the spi patch too. Ok, will go queue these up, thanks. 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
