On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:34:29PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote: > > > On 07/25/2011 04:30 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > I'd rather have platform devices core clean up this pointer, then we > > could stop caring about it in all drivers... > > > > then I said: > > > But the platform devices core just call the method of each own. > > And don't care about the details like pdata, etc. > > > > Meanwhile, I think the platform core need not care about these > > details. > > > > and Greg, what do you think about this? > > > this is the thread, Greg, understand now? > > For short, it's all about the platform driver data. Since many drivers > set the platform driver data to NULL when it is removed, then Dmitry > think it should be done in the platform driver core instead. Right, like i2c bus we could just have platform core clean up platform drvdata pointer after calling ->remove() and also if ->probe() errors out. Then individual drivers do not have to care about cleaning up this pointer. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- 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
