[PATCH v2 03/20] mmc: support embedded data field in mmc_host

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:02:24PM +0300, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> We have Russell's suggestion which is nice and simple, but it has the
> 1 device limitation.

You could make it generic by doing something like this:

#define set_device_data(name, type, index, data)			\
 ({									\
    extern void __set_device_data(const char *, int, void *, size_t);	\
    BUILD_BUG_ON(!__same_type(type, *data));				\
    __set_device_data(name ":" #type, index, data, sizeof(type));	\
 })

#define get_device_data(name, type, index) ({				\
  extern void *__get_device_data(const char *, int);			\
  type *__ptr = __get_device_data(name ":" #type, index);		\
  __ptr; })

And now we have something that takes a string and index to use as a lookup
key in some kind of list - and it's typesafe (because the lookup key is
dependent on the stringified type.)

But... at this point I feel that we're getting too complicated, and will
get shouted at to use something like DT which already solves this problem.