linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/12] mfd: vexpress-sysreg: Add syscon labels as platform data

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Message-ID: <20140211174829.GJ15081@lee--X1>
Date:	Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:48:29 +0000
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>
Cc:	"arm@...nel.org" <arm@...nel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] mfd: vexpress-sysreg: Add syscon labels as
 platform data

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Pawel Moll wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 17:29 +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > There must be better
> > ways of passing a name than through pdata, and if there isn't I'd
> > suggest setting up a sysconf pdata struct that others can use in case
> > they wish to expand the functionality further in some other
> > unfathomable way. :)
> 
> ... which I proposed in the previous patch :-)
> 
> > Alternatively I could define a syscon platform data structure,
> > something like this:
> > 
> > struct syscon_platform_data {
> > 	const char *label;
> > };

So you did.

Yes, this would be the lesser of the two evils. 

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