From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH] Palm interrupt driven touchscreen driver Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:38:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20090604103807.GG6983@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> References: <200906032341.03266.marek.vasut@gmail.com> <20090604085407.GB6983@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <20090604093737.GF6983@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com (opensource.wolfsonmicro.com [80.75.67.52]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B58724464 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:38:08 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: ALSA development , Eric Miao , Marek Vasut , Russell King - ARM Linux , linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:44:22AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > There was a very strong pushback against the idea of adding a void * > > to the structure, which is what I'd be looking for. > Yes, I was against the void pointer because there is no guarantee > of the data-type correctness between the data and the user. > The normal drvdata is fine because the creator and the user are the > same. But, the proposal of private_driver_data (of the last one, at > least) is no such a scenario. Do you have a pointer to this proposal? I don't remember it and my google-fu is weak today.