linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: greybus: operation: add private data with get/set accessors

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Date:   Sun, 5 Nov 2017 13:19:02 +0100
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@...us-software.ie>
Cc:     johan@...nel.org, elder@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, keescook@...omium.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: greybus: operation: add private data with
 get/set accessors

On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 03:27:38AM +0000, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Asynchronous operation completion handler's lives are made easier if there
> is a generic pointer that can store private data associated with the
> operation. This patch adds a pointer field to operation.h and get/set

As I mentioned in my review of v3 (back in January), this should be
s/operation.h/struct gb_operation/.

> methods to access that pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@...us-software.ie>

Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>

> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/operation.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/operation.h
> @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ struct gb_operation {
>  
>  	int			active;
>  	struct list_head	links;		/* connection->operations */
> +
> +	void			*private;
>  };

Johan