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Re: [PATCH 05/60] iwlagn: introduce struct iwl-shared - known by all layers

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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
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