linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: gpio: Avoid unnecessarily copying data structures in probe()

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Message-ID: <20160128230906.GC4130@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:09:06 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Harald Geyer <harald@...ib.org>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: gpio: Avoid unnecessarily copying data
 structures in probe()

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 07:55:17PM +0000, Harald Geyer wrote:
> The data structures either have been copied in
> of_get_gpio_regulator_config() already or are part of platform data,
> which we keep a pointer to for the life time of the device anyway.

The point of this code is to avoid referring to platform data after
probe for robustness.

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