On Tue, 23 Apr 2024, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > On 4/23/2024 5:00 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 04:36:20PM -0700, Florian Fainelli kirjoitti: > > > Rather than open code the i2c_designware string, utilize the newly > > > defined constant in i2c-designware.h. > > > > ... > > > > > static const struct mfd_cell intel_lpss_i2c_cell = { > > > - .name = "i2c_designware", > > > + .name = I2C_DESIGNWARE_NAME, > > > .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(intel_lpss_dev_resources), > > > .resources = intel_lpss_dev_resources, > > > }; > > > > We have tons of drivers that are using explicit naming, why is this case > > special? > > > > It is not special, just one of the 3 cases outside of drivers/i2c/busses > that reference a driver living under drivers/i2c/busses, as I replied in the > cover letter, this is a contract between the various device drivers and > their users, so we should have a central place where it is defined, not > repeated. I have always held the opinion that replacing user-facing strings with defines harms debugability, since grepping becomes a multi-stage process, often with ambiguous results (in the case of multiple definitions with the same name. Please keep the string in-place. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯]