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From: felipe.balbi@nokia.com (Felipe Balbi)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:21:26 +0300
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/8] wireless: wl1271: add platform driver to get
	board data
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Hi,

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:27:18PM +0200, ext DebBarma, Tarun Kanti wrote:
>Sounds perfect!
>What that means is _probe() function makes sense only for cases where 
>we have valid platform data because we are returning right at the top 
>if pdata is not valid. If this is the case I was curious to know why 
>not framework make another check for valid pdata before calling 
>_probe() instead of coming all the way to _probe() and then returning!

because pdata is completely optional. pdev OTOH isn't. Without a matched 
platform_device, your probe() won't get called.

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balbi

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