On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday, July 18, 2011 09:45:07 AM Shawn Guo wrote: >> The patch makes a copy of platform data into driver data, so that any >> reference to platform_data after .probe exits can be avoided. > > And why is this beneficial? I am of the opinion that platform data should > stay on (and be accessed through a const pointer to ensure that the driver > will not alter it). Because when using the device tree, there is no platform_data. g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
