Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2021-08-14

Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] PCI: replace pci_dev::driver usage that gets the driver name

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-08-12 07:09:03
Also in: linux-crypto, linux-pci, linux-wireless, linuxppc-dev, lkml

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:06:33AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K??nig wrote:
 static inline const char *eeh_driver_name(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 {
-	return (pdev && pdev->driver) ? pdev->driver->name : "<null>";
+	const char *drvstr = pdev ? dev_driver_string(&pdev->dev) : "";
+
+	if (*drvstr == '\0')
+		return "<null>";
+
+	return drvstr;
This looks rather obsfucated due to the fact that dev_driver_string
never returns '\0', and due to the strange mix of a tenary operation
and the if on a related condition.

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
 }
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_EEH */
diff --git a/drivers/bcma/host_pci.c b/drivers/bcma/host_pci.c
index 69c10a7b7c61..dc2ffa686964 100644
--- a/drivers/bcma/host_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/bcma/host_pci.c
@@ -175,9 +175,10 @@ static int bcma_host_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
 	if (err)
 		goto err_kfree_bus;
 
-	name = dev_name(&dev->dev);
-	if (dev->driver && dev->driver->name)
-		name = dev->driver->name;
+	name = dev_driver_string(&dev->dev);
+	if (*name == '\0')
+		name = dev_name(&dev->dev);
Where does this '\0' check come from?
+
+	name = dev_driver_string(&dev->dev);
+	if (*name == '\0')
+		name = dev_name(&dev->dev);
+
More of this weirdness.
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