Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:57:31 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
       ACPI Developers <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Greg <greg@kroah.com>,
       Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>,
       Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4]Bind physical devices with ACPI devices - take 2
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Hi!

> > It looks like some device drivers scribble on dev->platform_data;
> > and we need to fix those drivers before deploying this patch.
> > Alternatively, we could add a new field to struct device,
> > but then we'd probably never get rid of it...
> Yep, this is a big problem. According to the comments in the source
> file, it's designed for firmware such as ACPI, but some drivers misused
> it. A search shows there are many such drivers. Fixing the drivers is a
> pain for me.

It is easy: remove the field for release or two, then readd it with
your patch.
								Pavel
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