On Tue, 21 Mar 2023, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just some nitpicks:
>
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 01:04:33AM +0200, Menna Mahmoud wrote:
> > Convert `to_gbphy_dev` and `to_gbphy_driver` macros into a
> > static inline function.
> >
> > it is not great to have macro that use `container_of` macro,
>
> s/it/It/; s/macro/macros/; s/use/use the/;
>
> > because from looking at the definition one cannot tell what type
> > it applies to.
> > [...]
> > -#define to_gbphy_dev(d) container_of(d, struct gbphy_device, dev)
> > +static inline struct gbphy_device *to_gbphy_dev(const struct device *d)
>
> drivers/staging/greybus/gbphy.c always passes a variable named
> "dev" to this macro. So I'd call the parameter "dev", too, instead of
> "d". This is also a more typical name for variables of that type.
I argued against that. Because then there are two uses of dev
in the argument of container_of, and they refer to completely different
things. It's true that by the way container_of works, it's fine, but it
may be misleading.
julia
>
> > +{
> > + return container_of(d, struct gbphy_device, dev);
> > +}
> > [...]
> > };
> > -#define to_gbphy_driver(d) container_of(d, struct gbphy_driver, driver)
> > +static inline struct gbphy_driver *to_gbphy_driver(struct device_driver *d)
> > +{
> > + return container_of(d, struct gbphy_driver, driver);
> > +}
>
> With a similar reasoning (and also to not have "d"s that are either
> device or device_driver) I'd recommend "drv" here.
>
> Best regards
> Uwe
>
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