Re: using headers for platform device outside of the staging tree

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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:26:54PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:23:48AM +0200, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > i like to use the nvec driver with an arm soc board. What's the "usual" way to get 
> > access to the platform data (in nvec.h)? I see three options:
> > 
> > 	a) just add #include "../../../drivers/staging/nvec/nvec.h" to the board file as 
> > long as the driver is still in staging and update it after the driver got blessed
> > 
> 
> Don't do this.
> 
> > 	b) create some standalone file in include/linux/platform_data/tegra_nvec.h with 
> > just the platform data inside
> > 
> 
> Sounds good.  It's just the struct definitions that you need yes?

Yes, please do this, it's ok to have platform data for staging drivers
in the platform_data include directory due to the issues for this type
of problem.

thanks,

greg k-h
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