W dniu 15 września 2010 10:25 użytkownik Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał: > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:42:41PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote: >> W dniu 6 września 2010 14:07 użytkownik Russell King - ARM Linux >> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał: >> > On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 02:23:19PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote: >> >> 2010/9/1 Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> > Add a simple mechanism to pass platform data to the >> >> > SDIO instances of wl12xx. >> [cut patch] >> >> Why do you need all that copying? Isn't the data constant? >> > The first copy is to allow platforms to have their data marked with >> > __initdata. The second copy probably isn't necessary, but avoids >> > problems where the driver may decide to modify the platform data. >> Sorry for pushing at this, but why would you mark data that's meant to >> be used after init phase as __initdata? > Because you may have many instances of the data (due to multiple platform > support), and only need one of them at run-time. Ah. That makes sense. Thanks, Michał Mirosław -- 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
