From 006f4571a15fae3a0575f2a0f9e9b63b3d1012f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ming Lei Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 23:13:32 +0800 Subject: driver core: move platform_data into platform_device This patch moves platform_data from struct device into struct platform_device, based on the two ideas: 1. Now all platform_driver is registered by platform_driver_register, which makes probe()/release()/... of platform_driver passed parameter of platform_device *, so platform driver can get platform_data from platform_device; 2. Other kind of devices do not need to use platform_data, we can decrease size of device if moving it to platform_device. Taking into consideration of thousands of files to be fixed and they can't be finished in one night(maybe it will take a long time), so we keep platform_data in device to allow two kind of cases coexist until all platform devices pass its platfrom data from platform_device->platform_data. All patches to do this kind of conversion are welcome. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/device.h | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/device.h') diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index 5a64775e68e..4bea53fe8f4 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -385,8 +385,13 @@ struct device { struct device_driver *driver; /* which driver has allocated this device */ void *driver_data; /* data private to the driver */ - void *platform_data; /* Platform specific data, device - core doesn't touch it */ + + void *platform_data; /* We will remove platform_data + field if all platform devices + pass its platform specific data + from platform_device->platform_data, + other kind of devices should not + use platform_data. */ struct dev_pm_info power; #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA -- cgit v1.2.3