On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:11:07PM +0100, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Friday 09 April 2010 18:49:02 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 11:03:20PM +0800, Yong Wang wrote: > > > Currently there is no easy way to associate driver data kind of thing > > > with wmi drivers thus global variables have to be used to pass that > > > information between functions. Add a pair of functions to support > > > that. > > NAK > > > It looks like once you compete the conversion and have platform device > > you can attach to it instead of needing driver data in WMI. > > > The problem is that how can I retrieve the pointer to the platform device itself in eeepc_wmi_exit to platform_device_unregister it? Is there any other way to do it without having to define the platform device as global variable? > I'm with Dmitry on this one. Please avoid adding this kind of stuff to WMI - > it's just intended to be a thin wrapper around ACPI calls, not a full driver > class with its' own mechanisms for data storage, etc. > Thanks for your comments, Carlos. Do you have any suggestions about how to do that? Thanks -Yong -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
