On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:33:58PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:09:56 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > On Sunday 21 March 2010 15:14:17 Mark Brown wrote: > > > I agree with this. There are also some use cases where the device data > > > is actually static (eg, a generic description of the device or a > > > reference to some other shared resource rather than per device allocated > > > data). > From a technical perspective, there is little rationale to have the > client data pointed to static data. If you could reach it from probe(), > it has to be a global, and if it is a global, you can reach it again > directly from the rest of your code. The use case I can think of there is bus type specific stuff for devices that support multiple buses. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
