On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Sergey Ryazanov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2014-09-29 13:18 GMT+04:00 Linus Walleij <[email protected]>:

>>> +static u32 ar2315_gpio_intmask;
>>> +static u32 ar2315_gpio_intval;
>>> +static unsigned ar2315_gpio_irq_base;
>>> +static void __iomem *ar2315_mem;
>>
>> Get rid of these local variables and put them into an allocated
>> state container, see
>> Documentation/driver-model/design-patterns.txt
>>
> AR2315 SoC contains only one GPIO unit, so there are no reasons to
> increase driver complexity. But if you insist, I will add state
> container.

I insist. It makes the driver easier to maintain if it looks like
most other drivers instead of using static locals.

>> Convoluted, I would use an if() else construct rather than the ? operator.
>>
> Convoluted, but 3 lines shorter :) And checkpatch has no objections.

True but it's me who is going to be maintaining this, not checkpatch.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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