Re: [PATCH 1/5] device property: helper macros for property entry creation

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>]

On Thursday, August 06, 2015 10:48:48 AM Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 05:02:18PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 16:39 +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > > Marcos for easier creation of build-in property entries.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >  include/linux/property.h | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/property.h b/include/linux/property.h
> > > index 76ebde9..204d899 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/property.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/property.h
> > > @@ -152,6 +152,41 @@ struct property_entry {
> > >  	} value;
> > >  };
> > >  
> > > +#define PROP_ENTRY_U8(_name_, _val_) { \
> > 
> > PROP_ prefix is too generic.
> > Maybe DEVPROP_ ? At least for the latter no records in the current
> > sources.
> 
> I disagree with that. IMO this kind of macros should ideally resemble
> the structure name they are used to fill (struct property_entry in
> this case). And there are already definitions for DEV_PROP_* to
> describe the types, so using something like DEVPROP_* here is just
> confusing.
> 
> If PROP_ENTRY_* is really not good enough, we can change them
> PROPERTY_ENTRY_*. But is PROP_ENTRY_* really so bad?
> 
> Rafael, what is your opinion?

I would prefer PROPERTY_ENTRY_ to be honest.  It's not like we need to save
characters here.

Thanks,
Rafael