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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Michał Mirosław" <mirqus@gmail.com>
Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Roger Quadros <roger.quadros@nokia.com>,
	Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>, San Mehat <san@google.com>,
	Chikkature Rajashekar Madhusudhan <madhu.cr@ti.com>,
	Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] wireless: wl12xx: add platform data passing support
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:25:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100915082544.GA4625@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikAFCd+3ggZKhQXY=+bG==KgLkv3qNVdEGa=GBX@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:42:41PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> W dniu 6 września 2010 14:07 użytkownik Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> napisał:
> > On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 02:23:19PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> >> 2010/9/1 Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>:
> >> > Add a simple mechanism to pass platform data to the
> >> > SDIO instances of wl12xx.
> [cut patch]
> >> Why do you need all that copying? Isn't the data constant?
> >
> > The first copy is to allow platforms to have their data marked with
> > __initdata.  The second copy probably isn't necessary, but avoids
> > problems where the driver may decide to modify the platform data.
> 
> Sorry for pushing at this, but why would you mark data that's meant to
> be used after init phase as __initdata?

Because you may have many instances of the data (due to multiple platform
support), and only need one of them at run-time.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-15  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-01 21:26 [PATCH v5 0/7] native wl1271 support on ZOOM Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-01 21:26 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] wireless: wl1271: make wl12xx.h common to both spi and sdio Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-01 21:26 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] wireless: wl1271: support return value for the set power func Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-01 21:26 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] wireless: wl12xx: add platform data passing support Ohad Ben-Cohen
     [not found]   ` <1283376410-9999-4-git-send-email-ohad-Ix1uc/W3ht7QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-04 12:23     ` Michał Mirosław
2010-09-06 11:55       ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
     [not found]       ` <AANLkTi=goLEUqM1XQ__PrGu4=Erw2utaNP4qFmSgRta2-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-06 12:07         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-06 13:46           ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-06 19:42           ` Michał Mirosław
2010-09-15  8:00             ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
     [not found]               ` <AANLkTinM8vY7CygEN6DBR35WLkU-QOBwuiaRrpfwF6Mz-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-15  8:27                 ` Vitaly Wool
2010-09-15 16:39                   ` Tony Lindgren
2010-09-15  8:25             ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2010-09-15 16:10               ` Michał Mirosław
2010-09-01 21:26 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] wireless: wl1271: take irq info from private board data Ohad Ben-Cohen
     [not found] ` <1283376410-9999-1-git-send-email-ohad-Ix1uc/W3ht7QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-01 21:26   ` [PATCH v5 5/7] wireless: wl1271: make ref_clock configurable by board Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-01 21:26   ` [PATCH v5 6/7] omap: zoom: add fixed regulator device for wlan Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-01 21:26 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] omap: zoom: add mmc3/wl1271 device support Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-15  9:21 ` [PATCH v5 0/7] native wl1271 support on ZOOM Ohad Ben-Cohen
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTikedoL3HjohQfq2qa0TU5yMJR5p1GqyQJtQGrdb-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-15 11:08     ` Vitaly Wool
2010-09-15 13:21       ` John W. Linville
2010-09-15 16:34         ` Tony Lindgren
2010-09-15 16:46           ` Ohad Ben-Cohen

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