Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 7 authors, 2016-01-11

Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] ACPI: amba bus probing support

From: Russell King - ARM Linux <hidden>
Date: 2016-01-03 13:37:05
Also in: linux-acpi, linux-arm-kernel, lkml

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 05:19:40PM +0300, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
+	dev = amba_device_alloc(NULL, 0, 0);
+	if (!dev) {
+		dev_err(&adev->dev, "%s(): amba_device_alloc() failed\n",
+			__func__);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
...
+	/*
+	 * If the ACPI node has a parent and that parent has a physical device
+	 * attached to it, that physical device should be the parent of the
+	 * platform device we are about to create.
+	 */
+	dev->dev.parent = NULL;
No need to initialise this; amba_device_alloc() uses kzalloc(), and so
dev->dev.parent will already be NULL.

...
+	dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "%s", dev_name(&adev->dev));
Is there a reason not to use:

	dev = amba_device_alloc(dev_name(&adev->dev), 0, 0);

above?

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