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From: Rhyland Klein <rklein@nvidia.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Joseph Lo <josephl@nvidia.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: palmas: fix pdata ptr not be updated after it has been allocated
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:09:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F00A4E.1020100@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130724170215.GP9858@sirena.org.uk>

On 7/24/2013 1:02 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> * PGP Signed by an unknown key
> 
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:28:02PM -0400, Rhyland Klein wrote:
> 
>> +	/* Store the pdata pointer after everything else passes */
>> +	pdev->dev.platform_data = pdata;
> 
> No, this is bad - the driver should not be modifying the platform_data
> pointer, it's owned by the thing that created the device.  If the
> platform data needs to be modified it should be copied somewhere in the
> driver data.

Alright, thanks.

-rhyland

> 
> * Unknown Key
> * 0x7EA229BD
> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-24 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-24 16:28 [PATCH] regulator: palmas: fix pdata ptr not be updated after it has been allocated Rhyland Klein
2013-07-24 17:02 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-24 17:09   ` Rhyland Klein [this message]
2013-07-24 17:20 ` Stephen Warren

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