Re: [PATCH, v2] Xen: consolidate and simplify struct xenbus_driverinstantiation

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Thu Dec 22 2011 - 06:57:46 EST


On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 11:51 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 22.12.11 at 10:57, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 09:08 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> The 'name', 'owner', and 'mod_name' members are redundant with the
> >> identically named fields in the 'driver' sub-structure. Rather than
> >> switching each instance to specify these fields explicitly, introduce
> >> a macro to simplify this.
> >>
> >> Eliminate further redundancy by allowing the drvname argument to
> >> DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() to be blank (in which case the first entry from
> >> the ID table will be used for .driver.name).
> >
> > Any reason not to always use DRV_NAME here (which is generally a bit
> > more specific e.g. "xen-foofront" rather than "foo") and rely on the id
> > table for the shorter names used in xenstore?
>
> That would imply that DRV_NAME is always defined, but I don't
> see this being the case.

My mistake, I thought it was a Kbuild thing.

Ian.


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