Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] ibmebus: Move to of_device and of_platform_driver, match eHCA and eHEA drivers

From: Joachim Fenkes <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:21:07 +0200

On Tuesday 16 October 2007 17:27, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> One small change - I intend to remove the name and owner fields from
> struct of_platform_driver, so you should not bother initialising the name
> field and just initialise the name field of the embedded struct
> device_driver instead.  This, of course, means that you don't need
> 
> 	drv->driver.name = drv->name;
> 
> in ibmebus_register_driver.

I'd prefer to let this line stay in place until you actually make your
change, to keep the data structures consistent as long as the name field is
present. You could remove it in your patch then.

Regards,
  Joachim