From: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@xxxxxx> Alan / Greg, A small step (hopefully in right direction) to move this driver out of staging, into a right place in mainline. The patch set has, * Update TODO to add the requirement to remove global references. * The 2nd patch addresses the issue by removing the global references. To achieve this, the platform device being added from the board-XX.c inside arch/XX/ needs to expose a function'st_get_plat_device' which returns a pointer to the platform_device struct. Now there are 3 contexts in the driver: 1. platform device/driver context - probe/remove, sysfs show/store, and rfkill ops 2. TTY context - tty_open/close/_receive since it is ldisc driver 3. Process context - st_register/_unregister/_write called from the protocol drivers registering to ST upon calling open/close on /dev/radio0, /dev/tigps sort of char devices or hci0 sort of interfaces In platform device/driver context's dev_set_drvdata/get_drvdata is used. TTY's disc_data in TTY context and for the 3rd context and to combine 1 and 2 - the platform device exposed in board-XX.c will be used. Pavan Savoy (2): drivers:staging:ti-st: Update TODO drivers:staging:ti-st: remove global references drivers/staging/ti-st/TODO | 4 ++- drivers/staging/ti-st/st.h | 5 ++- drivers/staging/ti-st/st_core.c | 8 ++-- drivers/staging/ti-st/st_core.h | 2 + drivers/staging/ti-st/st_kim.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ drivers/staging/ti-st/st_kim.h | 6 ++-- 6 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
