Return-path: Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:48861 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754525Ab0IOQKY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:10:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100915082544.GA4625@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1283376410-9999-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> <1283376410-9999-4-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> <20100906120716.GE20903@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100915082544.GA4625@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:10:22 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] wireless: wl12xx: add platform data passing support From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Miros=B3aw?= To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Kalle Valo , Nicolas Pitre , Tony Lindgren , Mark Brown , Roger Quadros , Ido Yariv , San Mehat , Chikkature Rajashekar Madhusudhan , Luciano Coelho , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: W dniu 15 wrze?nia 2010 10:25 u?ytkownik Russell King - ARM Linux napisa?: > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:42:41PM +0200, Micha? Miros?aw wrote: >> W dniu 6 wrze?nia 2010 14:07 u?ytkownik Russell King - ARM Linux >> napisa?: >> > On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 02:23:19PM +0200, Micha? Miros?aw wrote: >> >> 2010/9/1 Ohad Ben-Cohen : >> >> > Add a simple mechanism to pass platform data to the >> >> > SDIO instances of wl12xx. >> [cut patch] >> >> Why do you need all that copying? Isn't the data constant? >> > The first copy is to allow platforms to have their data marked with >> > __initdata. ?The second copy probably isn't necessary, but avoids >> > problems where the driver may decide to modify the platform data. >> Sorry for pushing at this, but why would you mark data that's meant to >> be used after init phase as __initdata? > Because you may have many instances of the data (due to multiple platform > support), and only need one of them at run-time. Ah. That makes sense. Thanks, Micha? Miros?aw