Re: [PATCH 4/4] [Patch-next] ACPI, APEI, HEST Fix the unsuitableusage of platform_data.

From: Jin Dongming
Date: Tue Aug 17 2010 - 05:18:23 EST


(2010/08/17 13:18), Huang Ying wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 11:00 +0800, Jin Dongming wrote:
>>> Why not use platform_device_add_data?
>> Here what should be done is to transport the pointer of hest_hdr to platform_data,
>> so I think that it could be done successfully by allocating 8byte of memory.
>> If the platform_device_add_data() is used, the more memory will be allocated.
>>
>> So I think this method is better than using platform_device_add_data().
>
> You can specify allocation size for platform_device_add_data(), so no
> more memory will be allocated.
>
> Best Regards,
> Huang Ying

I am sorry for replying late.
I will modify my patch and resend it again.

Best Regards,
Jin Dongming
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