Hello Lee, On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 01:24:36PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > On Fri, 04 Dec 2020, Thierry Reding wrote: > > Now, I can no longer find a link to the discussion that I recall, so it > > was either on IRC (where I don't have any logs) or I'm loosing my mind. > > Don't worry, you are (probably!) still quite sane. > > The discussion happened over IRC.
FTR, the conversation was as follows (with lag = Lee, tags = Thierry and ukleinek = me): 1606741876 < ukleinek> tagr, lag: would you mind if I send 20201124212432.3117322-1-u.kleine-koe...@pengutronix.de to Linus? 1606741894 < ukleinek> tagr: or if you do mind, can you please send it? [...] 1606742364 < lag> ukleinek: I assume this is the container_of() patch? 1606742370 < ukleinek> lag: right 1606742402 < lag> ukleinek: It seems very wrong that a leaf controller driver's ops would be called before it has probed 1606742410 < lag> ukleinek: How is that a thing? 1606742428 < ukleinek> lag: the ops can be called as soon as pwmchip_add completes 1606742443 < lag> ukleinek: Where is pwmchip_add() called 1606742470 < lag> I guess I can grep that myself 1606742480 < ukleinek> lag: just before platform_set_drvdata(pdev, priv) in sl28cpld_pwm_probe() 1606742755 < lag> ukleinek: What about moving pwmchip_add() after platform_set_drvdata() or vice versa? 1606742789 < ukleinek> lag: did you read the commit log? 1606742845 < lag> ukleinek: I did 1606742981 < ukleinek> lag: then I don't get your question 1606743049 < lag> ukleinek: Why is using container_of, which is generally horrible and only used if there is no other way to obtain data, better than changing order of the calls such that the dependencies are met 1606743127 < ukleinek> container_of is a well understood concept and it's cheaper than dev_get_drvdata 1606743198 < ukleinek> and conceptually it's easier too. (But that might only be me) 1606743241 < ukleinek> for one thing it cannot happen that I get a wrong pointer because platform_set_drvdata was called too late 1606743281 < ukleinek> also it makes use of the fact that platform_set_drvdata sets the driver's driver data and not something in the platform device > I highlighted my concerns, but Uwe didn't respond to them. This patch > was the next time I saw anything on the subject. So I did respond and if you didn't see it the problem is on your end. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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