On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> The major obstacle now seems to be dynamic allocation of the driver
> private data and storing a pointer to that in a way that it can be
> retrieved using just the esp pointer. dev_set_drvdata(esp->dev, zep)
> causes the module load to crash ...
I've just noticed that most esp drivers do this:
static int esp_foo_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
{
...
esp->dev = dev;
...
}
But the esp->dev->dev dereferencing sometimes gets overlooked, resulting
in a pointer to a struct platform_device being used where a pointer to a
struct device should be used (i.e. dma_*() calls). I will look into fixing
this up. sun_esp.c doesn't have this problem, but the other drivers do.
I don't think any of that applies to your zorro_esp code because the
version you sent does this,
esp->dev = &z->dev;
which seems fine to me. But it could end up more convenient to use the
sun_esp approach and set esp->dev = z.
I suspect that the problem with zorro_esp is that sometimes you use the
esp->dev->driver_data pointer as the struct Scsi_Host pointer, and at
other times you use it for the struct zorro_driver_data pointer. (I think
I see now why you put the esp pointer in struct zorro_driver_data.)
If you like, email the current version to me or push it to a repo
somewhere and I'll take a look at it.
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