[PATCH] driver-core: remove conditionals around devicetree pointers

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Wed Jan 26 14:17:34 EST 2011


On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:02:02PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> Having conditional around the of_match_table and the of_node pointers
> turns out to make driver code use ugly #ifdef blocks.  Drop the
> conditionals and remove the #ifdef blocks from the affected drivers.
> 
> Also tidy up minor whitespace issues within the same hunks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> ---
> 
> I've held off doing this since I didn't want to needlessly increase
> the size of struct device and struct device_driver for users who don't
> use CONFIG_OF.  However, its quibbling about a tiny amount of memory,
> and #ifdef'ing it out this way is ugly for driver code.
> 
> Alternately, if I should be concerned about the extra memory, I could
> define some macros/inlines similar to how CONFIG_NUMA is handled.

No objection from me, I was wondering when you would get around to doing
this :)

If you want me to take this in my tree, I'd be glad to, otherwise feel
free to send it through yours, and add a:
	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
to it.

Nice job,

greg k-h


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