[PATCH v2 06/26] driver core: fw_devlink: Introduce fw_devlink_set_device()

Herve Codina herve.codina at bootlin.com
Mon May 19 07:27:33 PDT 2025


Hi Andy,

On Wed, 7 May 2025 18:02:40 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 09:12:48AM +0200, Herve Codina wrote:
> > Setting fwnode->dev is specific to fw_devlink.
> > 
> > In order to avoid having a direct 'fwnode->dev = dev;' in several
> > place in the kernel, introduce fw_devlink_set_device() helper to perform
> > this operation.  
> 
> Makes sense, can you also mark that field as __private? So sparse can catch
> the abusers up.
> 

I didn't know about __private tag and related ACCESS_PRIVATE().
Indeed, It makes perfect sense.

I will add it in next iteration.

Thanks for pointing out.

Best regards,
Hervé



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