On Saturday 10 April 2010 01:16:50 Yong Wang wrote: > 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 don't think so. But then why is this a problem, since this is what other device drivers do? (The child devices of the platform driver could then be stored in the platform devices data, if you wanted). -Carlos -- E-Mail: carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D -- 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
