On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 02/25/2012 12:38 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > Now that Alan Stern has cleaned up the usb serial driver registration,
> > we have the ability to create a module_usb_serial_driver macro to make
> > things a bit simpler, like the other *_driver macros created.
> >
> > But, as we need two functions here, we can't reuse the existing
> > module_driver() macro, so we need to roll our own.
> >
> > Lars-Peter, or anyone else, am I missing something here and we can use
> > module_driver() somehow, or even modify it, to work for subsystems that
> > need 2 parameters for their function calls to register/deregister?
> >
>
> I suppose we can make module_driver a variadic macro and pass any additional
> parameters to the register and unregister functions. Patch attached.
>
> - Lars
>
> 8<-------------------------------------------------------------------->8
> >From 0d731970249b787748eccd6e81890c012a44e5a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:25:58 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] driver-core: Allow additional parameters for module_driver
>
> Allow module_driver take additional parameters which will be passed to the
> register and unregister function calls. This allows it to be used in cases
> where additional parameters are required (e.g. usb_serial_register_drivers).
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/device.h | 7 ++++---
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> index b63fb39..bccccef 100644
> --- a/include/linux/device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> @@ -1007,19 +1007,20 @@ extern long sysfs_deprecated;
> * @__driver: driver name
> * @__register: register function for this driver type
> * @__unregister: unregister function for this driver type
> + * @...: Additional arguments to be passed to __register and __unregister.
> *
> * Use this macro to construct bus specific macros for registering
> * drivers, and do not use it on its own.
> */
> -#define module_driver(__driver, __register, __unregister) \
> +#define module_driver(__driver, __register, __unregister, ...) \
> static int __init __driver##_init(void) \
> { \
> - return __register(&(__driver)); \
> + return __register(&(__driver) , ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> } \
> module_init(__driver##_init); \
> static void __exit __driver##_exit(void) \
> { \
> - __unregister(&(__driver)); \
> + __unregister(&(__driver) , ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> } \
> module_exit(__driver##_exit);
Nice, let me play with this and see how it works out, thanks.
greg k-h
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