Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce module_nd_driver

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Mar 15 2018 - 10:24:46 EST


On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:11 AM, Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:22:57AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> What is the point? It saves a hand fulk of lines, while making
>> the code both harder to read and harder to extend.
>
> In the end it's just style alignment with most of the other "busses"
> in the kernel, like pci, of, acpi, platform and so on...
>
> But yes I admit it's not a huge win. For the harder to read part, I
> doubt it. A quick:
> git grep -E module_.*._driver drivers/ | wc -l
> has 3896 hit's, so it's not that uncommon ;-)
>
> But anyways, it's just code churn I came up with while being
> frustrated hunting down a bug in this subsystem.
>

Works for me. Removing more lines than you add is always welcome.