Re: [PATCH V2 1/9] New drivers for MXC: add I2C support for MXC

[Darius Augulis <augulis.darius-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Hi Darius,
>
> this is not V5, is it? See below...Was there much rebasing needed for 2.6.29? Otherwise we could simply
> keep this one?
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.i2c/2962
>
>   
Please keep and merge new patch.

>> +
>> +	pdata = pdev->dev.platform_data;
>> +	if (!pdata) {
>> +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "I2C driver needs platform data\n");
>> +		return -ENODEV;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	if (pdata->init) {
>> +		ret = pdata->init(&pdev->dev);
>> +		if (ret)
>> +			return ret;
>> +	}
>> +
>>     
>
> For example, V5 stuff looked like this:
>
> 	pdata = pdev->dev.platform_data;
>
> 	if (pdata && pdata->init) {
> 		ret = pdata->init(&pdev->dev);
> 		if (ret)
> 			return ret;
> 	}
>
> which is better.

New one is better. Because one could not have anything to init in the board.