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On Jul 1, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 06:33:57AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> On some architectures we need to setup pdev_archdata before we add =
the
>> device.  Waiting til a bus_notifier is too late since we might need =
the
>> pdev_archdata in the bus notifier.  One example is setting up of =
dma_mask
>> pointers such that it can be used in a bus_notifier.
>>=20
>> We add noop version of arch_setup_pdev_archdata() in
>> <asm-generic/platform_device.h> and allow the arch code to override =
with
>> access the full definitions of struct device, struct platform_device, =
and
>> struct pdev_archdata.
>=20
> Isn't there some way to use "weak" symbols to keep us from having to
> create this .h file in every single arch and then if the arch wants to
> define it, it does so?
>=20
> That should make this patch simpler, right?
>=20
> thanks,
>=20
> greg k-h

Changing to weak should be doable if we are ok with the additional =
function call always happening.

- k