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authorMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>2009-03-08 23:13:32 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-03-24 16:38:26 -0700
commit006f4571a15fae3a0575f2a0f9e9b63b3d1012f8 (patch)
tree22c2e30f830b0440032c1347b13bf96734a76022 /include/linux/device.h
parente0edd3c65aa5b53e20280565a7ce11675eb7ed6b (diff)
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 <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/device.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 5a64775e68e4..4bea53fe8f4c 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