Re: [PATCH 3/4] tsi108_eth: use dma API properly

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:09:20PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > +       struct platform_device *pdev;
> 
> Do you really need platform_defice reference?
> 
> Perhaps
> 
> struct device *hdev; // hardware device
> 
> 
> data->hdev = &pdev->dev;
> 
> Another idea
> 
> dev->dev.parent = &pdev->dev;
> 
> No new member needed.

Maybe.  But what I've done is the simplest change in a long obsolete
driver that I don't understand at all.  I'd rather keep it simple.