[PATCH 0/5] nvmem: some cleanups and sparse warning fixes

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro at socionext.com
Wed Sep 20 03:02:24 PDT 2017


Hi Srinivas,


2017-09-11 22:00 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>:
>
> Socionext is trying to add a new nvmem driver.
>
> Before adding a new one, I'd like to be sure about the preferred
> coding style in this subsystem, and build-up cleaner code base.
>
> Please pick up what you like.  Please feel free to throw away
> what you do not like.
>
> 1/5, 2/5: convert kzalloc to stack because nvmem_config
> is small one-time use data.
> This is what we agreed in the discussion.
>
> 3/5, 4/5: fix sparse warning
> For mtk-efuse, qfprom, the base address is the only private data
> but, assigning (void __iomem *) to ->priv directly causes sparse
> warnings.
>
> 5/5: clean-up of owner settings - if the owner field matches
> nvmem->dev->driver->onwer, we need not set the onwer field
> explicitly.


Does this series look OK?

Thanks.




-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada



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