Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: Add platform device arch data V2

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Magnus Damm wrote:
> 2009/6/2 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>:
> > On Monday 01 June 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> On Monday 01 June 2009, Magnus Damm wrote:
> >> > From: Magnus Damm <damm@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> 
> If you guys dislike adding arch specific data to struct platform
> device then for SuperH we can just (mis)use the arch specific data in
> struct device instead. I'm afraid that solution wastes memory since
> the data will only be used for platform devices anyway. So I prefer
> adding arch specific data to struct platform_device instead of struct
> device if possible.

BTW, what is the difference really?  You can always put
dev.platform_data = NULL for devices that don't have any platform data,
can't you?

Rafael
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