On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:22:30PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:19:54AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

quoted

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:39:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

quoted

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:32:35PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:

quoted

quoted

quoted

can gracefully handle its platform data being discarded.

quoted

quoted

Sure there is - take a copy of the platform data in probe().

quoted

Ick ick ick, devdata needs to die as it's pretty much pointless these
days.

Hrm?  I'm not sure I understand the direct relevance here - we're
talking about platform data.

The platform data was marked __devdata, and you said it could be thrown
away after init so you should keep it around somehow.

Anyway, not really the main point here at all, sorry for the noise...

greg k-h