[PATCH v2 1/2] pwm: Manage owner assignment implicitly for drivers

Andi Shyti andi.shyti at kernel.org
Sat Aug 5 20:36:10 UTC 2023


Hi Uwe,

On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 04:27:06PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Instead of requiring each driver to care for assigning the owner member
> of struct pwm_ops, handle that implicitly using a macro. Note that the
> owner member has to be moved to struct pwm_chip, as the ops structure
> usually lives in read-only memory and so cannot be modified.
> 
> The upside is that new lowlevel drivers cannot forget the assignment and
> save one line each. The pwm-crc driver didn't assign .owner, that's not
> a problem in practise though as the driver cannot be compiled as a

/practise/practice/

> module.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>

Acked-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti at kernel.org> 

Thanks,
Andi


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