Re: [PATCH v1 1/7] auxdisplay: charlcd: Partially revert "Move hwidth and bwidth to struct hd44780_common"

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Mar 07 2025 - 04:03:51 EST


Hi Andy,

Thanks for your patch!

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 at 18:30, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The commit 2545c1c948a6 ("auxdisplay: Move hwidth and bwidth to struct

s/The commit/Commit/

> hd44780_common") makes charlcd_alloc() argument-less effectively dropping
> the single allocation for the struct charlcd_priv object along with
> the driver specific one. Restore that behaviour here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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