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author | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2010-02-25 01:55:37 -0800 |
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committer | Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> | 2010-03-03 14:49:30 +0000 |
commit | 1ad02bbce64e5226b0582af85df4e481e2f6b7b9 (patch) | |
tree | 9dd0dd69470f22cf71d157954452c7619e248672 /block/compat_ioctl.c | |
parent | 598b3578ab9ee8e3eef322128485719668d8b93b (diff) |
Regulators: wm8400 - cleanup platform driver data handling
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:40:56PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:21:26AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 07:14:03PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > This doesn't help unless you also provide a way for users to obtain a
> > > struct wm8400.
>
> > Why would they need it? Only code that creates instances of wm8400 needs
> > to know the definition of the sturcture, the rest can simply pass the
> > pointer around.
>
> > I guess there is disconnect between us and I do not see any users of
> > wm8400_register_regulator() in linux-next... Is there another tree I
> > could peek at?
>
> There are no users in mainline. This would be called by board specific
> code from the init callback of the wm8400 - you'd need to pass that
> callback the struct wm8400.
>
> In any case, this is clearly an unrelated change to whatever else you
> were doing to the driver so should be split off into a separate patch,
> but if this is being changed at all then it'd be much more sensible to
> change it to use a more modern pattern which completely removes the
> wm8400_register_regulator() function and just uses platform data.
Fair enough, I removed the offending part, updated patch below.
--
Dmitry
regulator: wm8400 - cleanup platform driver data handling
Driver data set by platform_set_drvdata() is for private use of
the driver currently bound to teh device and not for use by parent,
subsystem and anyone else.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
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