Re[2]: [RFC 1/3] clk: Remove unneded private "parent" fields

[Alexander Shiyan]

> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:35:38AM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work at mail.ru>
> > ---
> >  drivers/clk/clk-divider-table.c |    4 +---
> >  drivers/clk/clk-divider.c       |    4 +---
> >  drivers/clk/clk-fixed-factor.c  |    4 +---
> >  drivers/clk/clk-gate.c          |    4 +---
> >  4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-divider-table.c b/drivers/clk/clk-divider-table.c
> > index 204e24d..e75fb78 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clk/clk-divider-table.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-divider-table.c
> > @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ struct clk_divider_table {
> >  	u8 shift;
> >  	u8 width;
> >  	void __iomem *reg;
> > -	const char *parent;
> >  	const struct clk_div_table *table;
> >  	int table_size;
> >  	int max_div_index;
> > @@ -94,10 +93,9 @@ struct clk *clk_divider_table(const char *name,
> >  	div->shift = shift;
> >  	div->reg = reg;
> >  	div->width = width;
> > -	div->parent = parent;
> >  	div->clk.ops = &clk_divider_table_ops;
> >  	div->clk.name = name;
> > -	div->clk.parent_names = &div->parent;
> > +	div->clk.parent_names = &parent;
> 
> You can't do that. You can assume that the string *name points to stays
> valid, but the pointer itself might not stay valid when leaving this
> function. parent_names is an array of pointers, with the divider it only
> has one entry, but still you need to keep a pointer for it. This is what
> div->parent is for.

You are right. Thanks.

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