On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 05:36:18PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:02:06 -0800, Greg KH wrote: >> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:13:34AM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: >> > > Grant Likely recently introduced the module_platform_driver macro which >> > > can be >> > > used to eliminate a few lines on boilerplate code in platform driver >> > > modules. >> > > The same approach can be used to do the same for other bus type drivers. >> > > >> > > The first patch of this series generalizes the module_platform_driver >> > > macro and >> > > introduces the module_driver macro. It is similar to >> > > module_platform_driver >> > > macro but has two additional parameters to pass in the driver register >> > > and >> > > unregister function. The intend is that this macro is used to construct >> > > bus >> > > specific macros for generating the driver register/unregister >> > > boilerplate code. >> > > >> > > The next two patches in this series add the module_i2c_driver and >> > > module_spi_driver macro which use the module_driver macro to generate >> > > the I2C >> > > and SPI driver boilerplate code. >> > > >> > > The last two patches convert the driver found in the IIO framework to >> > > use the >> > > new module_i2c_driver and module_spi_driver macros to demonstrate their >> > > potential and remove over 700 lines of code. >> > > >> > > While this series only introduces these kind of helper macros for I2C >> > > and SPI >> > > bus drivers the same scheme should be applicable to most other bus >> > > driver types. >> > > For example PCI and USB seem to be good candidates. >> > > >> > > It probably makes sense to merge the first three patches together. The >> > > last two >> > > can probably, since this is not urgent, wait until the first three have >> > > reached >> > > mainline. >> > >> > Nice, I like this, unless people object, I'll merge the first patch to >> > the driver-core tree. >> > >> > I'll gladly take the i2c and spi patches as well if the subsystem >> > maintainers there don't object, and I'll work on the USB patch as well. >> >> No objection from me (for i2c). > > Wonderful, thanks for letting me know.
Yes, please take the spi patch too. Thanks, g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
