On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:13:39AM -0700, Guy, Wey-Yi wrote: > now we are working on separate iwlagn driver into two layers (upper and > lower), the lower layer contains both bus and transport sub-layer which > is hw dependent, and the upper layer should be bus/hw independent. by > doing so, the single driver can handle different bus and different core > architecture. Having the share data structure (priv->shrd->foo) between > two layers is for that reason (loosely couple). You did not explained reason for introducing iwl_shared structure, actually you confirmed it is useless. You should simply share iwl_priv on any layer you have. Stanislaw -- 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