Re: [PATCH] Remove "decl_subsys_name" macro and single usage of it.

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:

> On 3/1/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> >   Remove the macro "decl_subsys_name" which can be used to declare a
> > sysfs subsystem, along with the single invocation of it in the source
> > tree, since there appears to be little value in creating a subsystem
> > whose subsystem name differs from its structure name.  Everyone else
> > just uses "decl_subsys".
>
> Sometimes you want shorter variable names as the created objects in
> sysfs, because the 80 columns limit of the kernel source makes long
> variable names pretty inconvenient.
> And all these decl_* macros, obviously can't create any names that
> contain '-', which is pretty annoying. There is also a user in the
> experimental patches in Greg's tree. Please leave it there for now.

no problem but that patch *was* based on a suggestion by greg in the
first place.  i'm guessing he just forgot. :-)

rday
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