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Tue, 9 Apr 2024 11:46:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:46:09 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Umang Jain Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, Dan Carpenter , Kieran Bingham , Laurent Pinchart , Dave Stevenson , Phil Elwell , Stefan Wahren Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] staging: vc04_services: Drop non-essential global members Message-ID: <2024040942-hastiness-conical-5151@gregkh> References: <20240328181134.1548799-1-umang.jain@ideasonboard.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240328181134.1548799-1-umang.jain@ideasonboard.com> On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 11:41:22PM +0530, Umang Jain wrote: > This series aims to drop the remaining (non-essential) global members > to address the following TODO item: > ``` > * Get rid of all non essential global structures and create a proper per > device structure > ``` > > Mainly the global members are moved to be contained inside platform > driver data. They can be access via platform_get_drvdata(). > > More re-fractoring has gone into this version now. Please look > for individual commit for details. > > --- > NOTE: Series has been developed on top of [1] > "[PATCH] staging: vc04_services: Stop kthreads on .remove" > > The fate of that patch is still undecided, so we need to take into > account on the direction the discussions take. That will only affect > Patch 10/11 of this series, rest is fairly independent in that regard. As that patch was not accepted, but the revert was this series needs to be rebased. thanks, greg k-h