[PATCH v2 01/16] of: device: make of_device_uevent_modalias() take a const device *

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 08:54:04AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 5:30 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > of_device_uevent_modalias() does not modify the device pointer passed to
> > it, so mark it constant.  In order to properly do this, a number of
> > busses need to have a modalias function added as they were attempting to
> > just point to of_device_uevent_modalias instead of their bus-specific
> > modalias function.  This is fine except if the prototype for a bus and
> > device type modalias function diverges and then problems could happen.  To
> > prevent all of that, just wrap the call to of_device_uevent_modalias()
> > directly for each bus and device type individually.
> 
> Why not just put the wrapper function in the DT code instead of making
> 4 copies of it?

I could, if you think that it would be better there instead of in each
individual bus (like all of the other bus callbacks).  This way each bus
"owns" their implementation :)

thanks,

greg k-h