Re: [RFC] drivercore: Add helper macro for platform_driverboilerplate

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Oct 05 2011 - 06:02:49 EST


On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 05:26:55PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:

> +/* Helper macro for drivers that don't do anything special in module
> + * init/exit. This eliminates a lot of boilerplate */
> +#define module_platform_driver(__platform_driver) \
> +int __platform_driver##_init(void) \
> +{ \
> + return platform_driver_register(&(__platform_driver)); \
> +} \
> +module_init(__platform_driver##_init); \

This looks great but I would prefer it if the function complained if
something goes wrong - it makes problems a lot more discoverable when
they crop up.
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