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From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
To: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@mev.co.uk>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] staging: comedi: move 'struct pci_dev *' into comedi_device
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:55:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FFE9102.2090204@mev.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201207111447.47402.hartleys@visionengravers.com>

On 2012/07/11 10:47 PM, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> All the comedi pci drivers have a struct pci_dev * in their private
> data to hold the pointer to the pci device. Some of the drivers only
> have private data because of this pointer.
> 
> Move the variable into the comedi_device struct and remove the private
> data for the drivers that no longer need it.

I suppose at a later date we could turn that into a union with a short
name like u (so comedidev->pcidev would become something like
comedidev->u.pcidev), which would allow us to stick a 'struct
usb_interface *' or some other hardware device wrapper struct pointer in
the same hole.  (Maybe 'h' for 'hardware' would be better than 'u'.)

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-12  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-11 21:47 [PATCH 00/30] staging: comedi: move 'struct pci_dev *' into comedi_device H Hartley Sweeten
2012-07-12  8:55 ` Ian Abbott [this message]
2012-07-12  9:02   ` Alan Cox
2012-07-12  9:02     ` Ian Abbott

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