On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 07:48 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> [ device->platform_data ]
>
> > So except for the size of the patch and boredom of going through all
> > of them fixing them, do you see any reason why this later one
> > shouldn't be moved out to platform_driver ? (I haven't actually
> > checked at all the occurences in the tree though).
>
> You'll find it being used in drivers/base/isa.c for one. I only used it
> there because it was available and made for slightly nicer code though.
> If platform_data is going away (and assuming you wouldn't want similar
> abuse of your new system_data) it wouldn't be a problem to move the
> driver pointer to the private struct isa_dev as in the attached.
Ah thanks, I missed that use.
Well, we'll see what Greg has to say but thanks for the patch.
Cheers,
Ben.
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