Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757568Ab1BRIjn (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:39:43 -0500 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:54526 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756071Ab1BRIjl (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:39:41 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:39:28 +0100 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= To: Andres Salomon Cc: Fabio Estevam , Russell King , Samuel Ortiz , Mark Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Purdie , Sascha Hauer , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Liam Girdwood Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/17] mc13xxx: mfd_cell is now implicitly available to drivers Message-ID: <20110218083928.GU22310@pengutronix.de> References: <20110211181921.3d561568@queued.net> <20110216094154.GV13279@pengutronix.de> <20110216090036.6fffed34@debxo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20110216090036.6fffed34@debxo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1250 Lines: 30 On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:00:36AM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:41:54 +0100 > Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 06:19:21PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > > > > The cell's platform_data is now accessed with a helper function; > > > change clients to use that, and remove the now-unused data_size. > > > > > > Note that mfd-core no longer makes a copy of platform_data, but the > > why was this changed and where? I'm not able to find your complete > > series via gmane. > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1099164 I still don't get the motivation of your patch set. For drivers that don't need the mfd_cells you introduce another level of indirection. And drivers that want to use mfd_cells as platform_data, they can already now. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K?nig | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/