On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:54:53AM +0200, Richard Röjfors wrote: > On 09/30/2010 10:16 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote: > >Hi Richard, > > > >On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:24:25PM +0200, Richard Röjfors wrote: > >>On 09/29/2010 10:07 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote: > >>>We need to carry some information per host, e.g. the clock. Add a > >>>structure for it and initialize it in the generic part. Also do not use > >>>the parent of the platform_device (if it is available), this breaks the > >>>clock-matching on ARM. > >> > >>The reason it's there is for instance a case when the shdci device is > >>exposed > >>from a MFD device which sits on top of PCI. Then the parent (PCI device) > >>is the device that is DMA capable. This patch will break such usage. > > > >I feared that there is a reason. The problem I see is now, that the parent > >gets > >always set (from drivers/base/platform.c): > > Then we obviously need to pass more information in the platform_data to be > able > to chose which device to be used.
Yeah, that was my idea, too. > >So, sdhci-plftm cannot access the platform_data connected to the original > >platform_device via host->mmc->parent. > > You're right it wouldn't. But isn't it a bit risky even if you could access > it, > in the long the platform_data coild point to something that is in the > __devinit section > or similar? The use-case we see now is in the custom init() call, i.e. setting up GPIO, enabling clocks. That is in the same section. Accessing platform_data later is in deed always risky and should not be done, sdhci-pltfm is no special case here. > What about extend the struct you defined with the pieces needed, and access > it via > sdhci_priv? At the moment, I don't think this is needed. Will think more about it (and the other comments) next week, already preparing for a long weekend \o/ Thanks, Wolfram -- Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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