On 31-01-20, 10:47, Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, Mathias Nyman wrote: > > > I realize this can't be easily changed because usb_hcd_pci_probe() takes the > > pci_device_id pointer as an argument, and expects id.driver_data to be a > > HC driver pointer. > > > > So this turns out to be a question for Greg and Alan: > > > > Would it make sense to change usb_hcd_pci_probe() to take a HC driver pointer > > as an argument instead of a pointer to pci_device_id? > > pci_device_id pointer is only used to extract the HC driver handle. > > This way the driver_data could be used for, well, driver data. > > That seems like a good idea to me. There aren't very many drivers that > use usb_hcd_pci_probe(); changing them all should be fairly easy. Yup it was easy to do :) I have done this and tested it. Now we can use driver_data for driver data. Though couldn't compile the uhci, seems to have missing Makefile entry. -- ~Vinod
