Re: [PATCH 01/18] mtd: abstract last MTD partition parser argument

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 12:21 +0400, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> On 6/22/11, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I see a lot of checkpatch.pl warnings, could you please take a look?
> >
> > Also, my gcc produces warnings with this patch because you have not
> > fixed up MPT parsers, e.g., like this:
> 
> Sorry, I was also busy that time and forgot about this :)
> 
> BTW: the patches should be applicable clearly to the l2-mtd at the time
> I've sent them.
> 
> I'll fix all of your comments except this one:
> 
> > Could you please embrace the origin field into an anonymous union - once
> > we add the of_node field they do not have to be at separate addresses. I
> > mean:
> >
> > struct mtd_part_parser_data {
> > 	union {
> > 		unsigned long origin;
> > 		struct device_node *of_node;
> > 	};
> > };
> 
> No, no and no. This data is passed to all parsers, so it should be valid for all
> of them. Either we have to add a way to specify, what exactly we have provided,
> or we have to leave data as separate struct fields.

I do not see why we should waste memory - union will work well. This is
parser-specific object and the parser should know which fields belong to
him. And this object is not shared between parsers so they cannot screw
each other. Yes, this is not the most beautiful way to go, but it is
simple enough and suits this situation, I think.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy