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

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Date:	Thu, 3 Oct 2013 11:13:05 +0200
From:	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
CC:	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] amba: Ensure drvdata is NULL

On 10/02/2013 10:25 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 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.

ok - I have checked that path and it should be already done
in really_probe function which calls amba_probe() and then driver probe function.

It means that the patch should contain just "amba_set_drvdata(dev, NULL);"
removal and not touching bus.c file.

Thanks,
Michal


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