On Friday 29 November 2013, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday 28 November 2013, Jonas Jensen wrote: > >> +static void __iomem *moxart_gpio_base; > > > > Just one comment: the usual way to do such a driver is to have > > a derived data structure like > > > > struct moxart_gpio_chip { > > struct gpio_chip chip; > > void __iomem *moxart_gpio_base; > > }; > > > > and dynamically allocate that from probe(), using container_of() to > > get from the gpio_chip pointer to your own structure. > > I see we make this comment a lot. > > On my TODO there is an item to create > Documentation/driver-model/design-patterns.txt > > And document things like this. And other fun stuff like > container_of(). > > What do you think about this idea? Great idea! Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html