On 9/28/20 5:42 PM, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> We use dev_get_drvdata to get the driver match data associated with a
> device. This has two shortcomings:
>
> - Linux has dev_get_drvdata too, which returns a private pointer for
> driver specific info to associate with a device. We use dev->priv
> (or more often container_of) for that in barebox instead
>
> - It nearly always involves a cast to a double pointer, which is
> error-prone as size and alignment match need to be ensured
> on the programmer's part and can easily be gotten wrong:
> enum dev_type type
> dev_get_drvdata(dev, (const void **)&type);
>
> Add a new function that instead of using a double pointer argument,
> returns the pointer directly:
>
> - For normal pointer driver data, no cast is necessary
> - For integer driver data casted to a pointer for storage,
> the cast is still necessary, but
That ", but" should be removed. Sascha, could you fix this up
on apply (assuming there won't be a v2)?
>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/driver.c | 11 +++++++++++
> include/driver.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
> index 412db6c40699..3205bbc3c33b 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
> @@ -500,3 +500,14 @@ int dev_get_drvdata(struct device_d *dev, const void **data)
>
> return -ENODEV;
> }
> +
> +const void *device_get_match_data(struct device_d *dev)
> +{
> + if (dev->of_id_entry)
> + return dev->of_id_entry->data;
> +
> + if (dev->id_entry)
> + return (void *)dev->id_entry->driver_data;
> +
> + return NULL;
> +}
> diff --git a/include/driver.h b/include/driver.h
> index 154525e0fde7..14220431f2d6 100644
> --- a/include/driver.h
> +++ b/include/driver.h
> @@ -534,8 +534,26 @@ int devfs_create_partitions(const char *devname,
> #define DRV_OF_COMPAT(compat) \
> IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OFDEVICE) ? (compat) : NULL
>
> +/**
> + * dev_get_drvdata - get driver match data associated with device
> + * @dev: device instance
> + * @data: pointer to void *, where match data is stored
> + *
> + * Returns 0 on success and error code otherwise.
> + *
> + * DEPRECATED: use device_get_match_data instead, which avoids
> + * common pitfalls due to explicit pointer casts
> + */
> int dev_get_drvdata(struct device_d *dev, const void **data);
>
> +/**
> + * device_get_match_data - get driver match data associated with device
> + * @dev: device instance
> + *
> + * Returns match data on success and NULL otherwise
> + */
> +const void *device_get_match_data(struct device_d *dev);
> +
> int device_match_of_modalias(struct device_d *dev, struct driver_d *drv);
>
> #endif /* DRIVER_H */
>
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