linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] amba: Ensure drvdata is NULL

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Date:	Wed, 2 Oct 2013 21:25:21 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, monstr@...str.eu,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] amba: Ensure drvdata is NULL

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 08:59:06AM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> This patch is inpired by the patch for drvdata
> "device-core: Ensure drvdata = NULL when no driver is bound"
> (sha1: 0998d0631001288a5974afc0b2a5f568bcdecb4d)
> 
> Also it fixes all occurences in drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
> ---
> This patch has been sent as RFC in this thread.
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/4/393

Why not have the driver core do this?  Then it gets applied to all bus
types uniformly.

Thanks.
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