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From: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe Kleine-König)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 16/17] mc13xxx: mfd_cell is now implicitly available to drivers
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:39:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110218083928.GU22310@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110216090036.6fffed34@debxo>

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:00:36AM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:41:54 +0100
> Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 06:19:21PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > 
> > > The cell's platform_data is now accessed with a helper function;
> > > change clients to use that, and remove the now-unused data_size.
> > > 
> > > Note that mfd-core no longer makes a copy of platform_data, but the
> > why was this changed and where?  I'm not able to find your complete
> > series via gmane.
> 
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1099164
I still don't get the motivation of your patch set.  For drivers that
don't need the mfd_cells you introduce another level of indirection.
And drivers that want to use mfd_cells as platform_data, they can
already now.

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-K?nig            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-18  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-12  2:19 [PATCH 16/17] mc13xxx: mfd_cell is now implicitly available to drivers Andres Salomon
2011-02-16  9:41 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-16 12:26   ` Fabio Estevam
2011-02-16 12:31   ` Fabio Estevam
2011-02-16 12:58     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-17 11:53       ` Fabio Estevam
2011-02-17 13:10         ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-19  3:31           ` Fabio Estevam
2011-02-16 17:00   ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-18  8:39     ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2011-02-18 17:50       ` Andres Salomon

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