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

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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:26:28PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 08:21:06AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 05:14:11PM +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...
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> > I don't understand what you are asking me.
> 
> They're asking if drivers should set driver_data to NULL while
> unbinding, which always struck me as a waste of time given that
> nothing except a currently bound driver should be using driver_data.

Yeah, it's not needed, as nothing should rely on that.  However it's
also not hurting anything either.

greg k-h
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