[PATCH v2 2/2] OMAP: omap_device: Add a method to build an omap_device from a DT node

Kevin Hilman khilman at ti.com
Wed Sep 21 17:17:37 EDT 2011


"Cousson, Benoit" <b-cousson at ti.com> writes:

> On 9/17/2011 6:13 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 04:43:19PM +0200, Benoit Cousson wrote:

[...]

>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static int _omap_device_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb,
>>> +				      unsigned long event, void *dev)
>>
>> Nit: Why the preceding underscore?  Generally that is only done for
>> 'special' variants of public functions.  ie. for a variant that
>> expects a lock to already be held.
>
> Yeah, the convention in this file is not that strict, and it is used
> for internal static helper function as well.
> I'll let Kevin arbitrate that point :-)

The convention in this file is the leading '_' is used for internal
helper functions.

I'd prefer to keep it that way, and if we decide to change the coding
convention to match a coding convention elsewhere, we should do it all
at the same time.

Kevin



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