> -----Original Message----- > From: Felipe Balbi [mailto:felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:18 AM > To: DebBarma, Tarun Kanti > Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux- > mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Ido Yariv; Mark Brown; > linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Chikkature Rajashekar, Madhusudhan; > Coelho Luciano (Nokia-MS/Helsinki); akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; San Mehat; > Quadros Roger (Nokia-MS/Helsinki); Tony Lindgren; Nicolas Pitre; Pandita, > Vikram; Kalle Valo > Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/8] wireless: wl1271: add platform driver to get > board data > > hi, > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 08:42:18PM +0200, ext DebBarma, Tarun Kanti wrote: > >> @@ -182,10 +186,84 @@ static struct wl1271_if_operations sdio_ops = { > >> .disable_irq = wl1271_sdio_disable_interrupts > >> }; > >> > >> +static int wl1271_plat_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > >> +{ > >> + struct wl12xx_platform_data *pdata; > >> + struct platform_driver *pdriver; > >> + struct wl12xx_plat_instance *pinstance; > >> + > >What about checking for pdev here before extracting pdata? > > why ? if probe is called pdev is guaranteed to be valid, no ? > True; however if we go by that argument than we can also assume pdata is valid, so that we would not need the below check. Still, I would go ahead and find out if there is any scenario where pdev can go wrong during device registration. Thanks. > >> + pdata = pdev->dev.platform_data; > >> + if (!pdata) { > >> + wl1271_error("no platform data"); > >> + return -ENODEV; > >> + } > >> + > >> + pdriver = container_of(pdev->dev.driver, struct platform_driver, > >> + driver); > > but you shouldn't fiddle with the driver structure here. What are you > actually trying to achieve here ? What's pinstance supposed to do ? are > you trying to handle cases where you might have several wl12xx chips on > the same board ? If that's the case you should have several platform > devices, one for each chip. They'll only have different ids. > > -- > balbi > > DefectiveByDesign.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
