linux-kernel - Re: [v2 PATCH] regulator: palmas: Store pdata pointer in palmas struct

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Date:	Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:02:46 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Rhyland Klein <rklein@...dia.com>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Joseph Lo <josephl@...dia.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH] regulator: palmas: Store pdata pointer in palmas
 struct

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 01:04:59PM -0400, Rhyland Klein wrote:
> Store a pointer to the pdata so that if it needs to be used after
> probe it can be. In the case of booting from DeviceTree, the
> dev.platform_data may be null, so we need to store this pointer
> explicitly.

This doesn't seem to adjust any places where pdata is used to refer to
the new pointer so does it actually have any effect?

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