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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/24] media/video: fix dangling pointers
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:51:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100322215118.GC17533@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100322213358.31e50b3c@hyperion.delvare>

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:33:58PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:09:56 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 March 2010 15:14:17 Mark Brown wrote:

> > > I agree with this.  There are also some use cases where the device data
> > > is actually static (eg, a generic description of the device or a
> > > reference to some other shared resource rather than per device allocated
> > > data).

> From a technical perspective, there is little rationale to have the
> client data pointed to static data. If you could reach it from probe(),
> it has to be a global, and if it is a global, you can reach it again
> directly from the rest of your code.

The use case I can think of there is bus type specific stuff for devices
that support multiple buses.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1269094385-16114-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de>
2010-03-20 14:12 ` [PATCH 10/24] media/radio: fix dangling pointers Wolfram Sang
2010-03-20 14:12 ` [PATCH 11/24] media/radio/si470x: " Wolfram Sang
2010-03-20 14:12 ` [PATCH 12/24] media/video: " Wolfram Sang
2010-03-20 22:02   ` Hans Verkuil
2010-03-21 11:31     ` Wolfram Sang
2010-03-21 13:46     ` Jean Delvare
2010-03-21 14:14       ` Mark Brown
2010-03-21 16:09         ` Hans Verkuil
2010-03-22 20:33           ` Jean Delvare
2010-03-22 21:51             ` Mark Brown [this message]
2010-03-23  0:35             ` Wolfram Sang
2010-03-30 12:39           ` Wolfram Sang
2010-04-01  8:32             ` Hans Verkuil
2010-03-22 20:36       ` Jean Delvare

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