From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: [RFC v2 6/8] gpu: drm: tegra: Remove redundant host1x Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:55:45 -0700 Message-ID: <50CF86D1.7090303@wwwdotorg.org> References: <50BF345A.8050201@nvidia.com> <20121205120429.GA29943@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de> <50C5CAB5.3040000@nvidia.com> <20121212160829.GA30278@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de> <50C99677.6090306@nvidia.com> <20121213085750.GA14740@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de> <50CA175F.60002@wwwdotorg.org> <50CAC2AC.1010704@nvidia.com> <50CB5205.1030303@wwwdotorg.org> <50CB850F.9090704@nvidia.com> <20121216121603.GA31780@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de> <50CDF8C4.4070108@nvidia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <50CDF8C4.4070108-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-tegra-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: =?UTF-8?B?VGVyamUgQmVyZ3N0csO2bQ==?= Cc: Thierry Reding , "linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "dri-devel-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Arto Merilainen List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On 12/16/2012 09:37 AM, Terje Bergstr=C3=B6m wrote: =2E.. > ... Sure we could tell DC to ask its parent > (host1x), and call host1x driver with platform_device pointer found t= hat > way, and host1x would return a pointer to tegradrm's data. Hanging th= e > data onto host1x driver is just a more complicated way of implementin= g > global data No it's not; at that point, the data is no longer global, but specific to the driver instance.