RE: [PATCH] driver core: auxiliary bus: No need to get auxdev->dev again

[Angus Chen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 8:32 PM
> To: Angus Chen <angus.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: rafael@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: auxiliary bus: No need to get auxdev->dev
> again
> 
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 08:24:06PM +0800, Angus Chen wrote:
> > Use dev variable directly.
> > No functional change intended.
> 
> Not intended, but is it really intended?  What does this line mean?
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Angus Chen <angus.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/auxiliary.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/auxiliary.c b/drivers/base/auxiliary.c
> > index 4d4c2c8d26c4..ca1d044ff738 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/auxiliary.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/auxiliary.c
> > @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ int auxiliary_device_init(struct auxiliary_device
> *auxdev)
> >  	}
> >
> >  	dev->bus = &auxiliary_bus_type;
> > -	device_initialize(&auxdev->dev);
> > +	device_initialize(dev);
> 
> While an interesting change, is it needed?  Why make it?
I mean it just a clean up.beacuse
struct device *dev = &auxdev->dev;
thanks.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h