Re: [PATCH v2] Staging: greybus: Cleanup in greybus driver
From: Madhumitha Prabakaran
Date: Wed Apr 17 2019 - 20:55:40 EST
On 04/17 :25, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 05:13:18PM -0500, Madhumitha Prabakaran wrote:
> > Fix a blank line after structure declarations. Also, convert
> > macros into inline functions in order to maintain Linux kernel
> > coding style based on which the inline function is
> > preferable over the macro.
> >
> > Blank line fixes are suggested by checkpatch.pl
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Madhumitha Prabakaran <madhumithabiw@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - To maintain consistency in driver greybus, all the instances of macro
> > with container_of are fixed in a single patch.
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/greybus/bundle.h | 6 +++++-
> > drivers/staging/greybus/control.h | 6 +++++-
> > drivers/staging/greybus/gbphy.h | 12 ++++++++++--
> > drivers/staging/greybus/greybus.h | 6 +++++-
> > drivers/staging/greybus/hd.h | 6 +++++-
> > drivers/staging/greybus/interface.h | 6 +++++-
> > drivers/staging/greybus/module.h | 6 +++++-
> > drivers/staging/greybus/svc.h | 6 +++++-
> > 8 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/bundle.h b/drivers/staging/greybus/bundle.h
> > index 8734d2055657..84956eedb1c4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/bundle.h
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/bundle.h
> > @@ -31,7 +31,11 @@ struct gb_bundle {
> >
> > struct list_head links; /* interface->bundles */
> > };
> > -#define to_gb_bundle(d) container_of(d, struct gb_bundle, dev)
> > +
> > +static inline struct gb_bundle *to_gb_bundle(struct device *d)
> > +{
> > + return container_of(d, struct gb_bundle, dev);
> > +}
>
> Why are we changing this to an inline function? The #define is fine,
> and how we "normally" do this type of container_of conversion.
>
> I understand the objection of the "no blank line", but this was the
> "original" style that we used to create these #defines from the very
> beginning of the driver model work a decade ago. Changing that
> muscle-memory is going to be hard for some of us. Look at
> drivers/base/base.h for other examples of this.
Thanks for explaining it.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h