Re: [PATCH 0/8] RFC: Introduce ida_simple interfaces and use them.

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Fri Jul 22 2011 - 12:49:09 EST


Gah,

Sorry all, I have no idea why this double sent.

Jonathan
> Hi All,
>
> Firstly sorry for the huge cc list, but this series does get about.
>
> This series came out of two separate lkml threads:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/13/64
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1148513/focus=74236
>
> Basically Rusty and I both got annoyed with yet more instances
> of the same cut and past ida allocation code for the very simple
> case of wanting a unique id for some device. Tejun helpfully
> joined the two threads up.
>
> Anyhow, Rusty proposed more or less the first patch here (with a name
> change requested by Tejun applied.)
>
> The others patches are some of the more obvious looking cases for
> applying this code. My original reason was for IIO but those patches will
> have to wait a little while for some prior changes to merge.
> For reference, it saves about 40 lines there so I'm happy ;)
>
> There are a number of other cases in tree that can be cleaned up
> in a second series once these are sorted.
>
> There are a couple of cases in here where I've carefully mangled
> the error codes to keep consistent with the existing code. Please
> can people who know those subsystems well decide on whether the
> mangling is necessary.
>
> All comments welcome. I expect I've broken at least one driver
> doing this so please take a close look.
>
> Rusty, Tejun. I kept your sign of an ack for the first patch. Could
> you quickly verify that's fine?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
> Jonathan Cameron (7):
> hwmon: convert idr to ida and use ida_simple interface.
> hwmon: ibmaem: convert idr to ida and use ida_simple_get
> [SCSI] use ida_simple_get and ida_simple remove in place of
> boilerplate code.
> drm/vmwgfx: use ida_simple_get for id allocation.
> [SCSI] osduld: use ida_simple_get to handle id.
> w1: ds2760 and ds2780, use ida for id and ida_simple_get to get it.
> rtc: class idr converted to ida and ida_simple_get used.
>
> Rusty Russell (1):
> ida: Simplified functions for id allocation.
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_gmrid_manager.c | 34 +++----------
> drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 32 +++---------
> drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c | 47 +++--------------
> drivers/rtc/class.c | 32 +++---------
> drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c | 22 +++-----
> drivers/scsi/sd.c | 32 ++++--------
> drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2760.c | 48 ++---------------
> drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2780.c | 48 ++---------------
> include/linux/idr.h | 4 ++
> lib/idr.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 10 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 232 deletions(-)
>

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