linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/14] Regulators: wm8400 - cleanup platform driver data handling

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Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:55:37 -0800
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/14] Regulators: wm8400 - cleanup platform driver data
 handling

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:40:56PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:21:26AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 07:14:03PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > This doesn't help unless you also provide a way for users to obtain a
> > > struct wm8400.
> 
> > Why would they need it? Only code that creates instances of wm8400 needs
> > to know the definition of the sturcture, the rest can simply pass the
> > pointer around.
> 
> > I guess there is disconnect between us and I do not see any users of
> > wm8400_register_regulator() in linux-next... Is there another tree I
> > could peek at?
> 
> There are no users in mainline.  This would be called by board specific
> code from the init callback of the wm8400 - you'd need to pass that
> callback the struct wm8400.
> 
> In any case, this is clearly an unrelated change to whatever else you
> were doing to the driver so should be split off into a separate patch,
> but if this is being changed at all then it'd be much more sensible to
> change it to use a more modern pattern which completely removes the
> wm8400_register_regulator() function and just uses platform data.

Fair enough, I removed the offending part, updated patch below.

-- 
Dmitry

regulator: wm8400 - cleanup platform driver data handling

Driver data set by platform_set_drvdata() is for private use of
the driver currently bound to teh device and not for use by parent,
subsystem and anyone else.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...l.ru>
---

 drivers/regulator/wm8400-regulator.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/drivers/regulator/wm8400-regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/wm8400-regulator.c
index d9a2c98..924c7eb 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/wm8400-regulator.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/wm8400-regulator.c
@@ -317,14 +317,17 @@ static struct regulator_desc regulators[] = {
 
 static int __devinit wm8400_regulator_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
+	struct wm8400 *wm8400 = container_of(pdev, struct wm8400, regulators[pdev->id]);
 	struct regulator_dev *rdev;
 
 	rdev = regulator_register(&regulators[pdev->id], &pdev->dev,
-		pdev->dev.platform_data, dev_get_drvdata(&pdev->dev));
+				  pdev->dev.platform_data, wm8400);
 
 	if (IS_ERR(rdev))
 		return PTR_ERR(rdev);
 
+	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, rdev);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -332,6 +335,7 @@ static int __devexit wm8400_regulator_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct regulator_dev *rdev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
+	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
 	regulator_unregister(rdev);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -370,7 +374,6 @@ int wm8400_register_regulator(struct device *dev, int reg,
 	wm8400->regulators[reg].id = reg;
 	wm8400->regulators[reg].dev.parent = dev;
 	wm8400->regulators[reg].dev.platform_data = initdata;
-	dev_set_drvdata(&wm8400->regulators[reg].dev, wm8400);
 
 	return platform_device_register(&wm8400->regulators[reg]);
 }
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