Re: [PATCH] drivers:input:set driver data to NULL for pcap_keys

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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:19:16AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> Right, like i2c bus we could just have platform core clean up platform
> drvdata pointer after calling ->remove() and also if ->probe() errors
> out.

I2C doesn't do this (at least not any more).

> Then individual drivers do not have to care about cleaning up this
> pointer.

They don't have to worry about it anyway, the only thing that is allowed
to use the pointer is a currently bound driver and it's only allowed to
rely on is that while it's bound it'll get back the same driver_data
that it put in.
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