[PATCH 4/6] mmc: sdhci_pltfm: pass more data on custom init-call

[Wolfram Sang]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 01:42:02PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:31:58AM +0200, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> > > The custom init call may need more data to perform its job, so we pass
> > > it a pointer to pdata, too. Also, always use the platform_id specific
> > > data even if platform_data is present. Doing that, platform_data can
> > > additionally be parsed by init() for board-specific information (via
> > > sdhci->mmc->parent).
> > > 
> > Why not a pointer to the platform_device itself? Then the callback
> > function would have even more information (e.g. platform_device ID)
> > and could easily get at the platform_data too.
> 
> dev->platform_data may not be there. There are two ways to pass
> the "platform data" to the sdhci-pltfm driver:
> 
> a) via dev->platform_data
> b) via platform_device_id->driver_data

or c) both :)

which is the reason for the current implementation.
platform_device_id->driver_data may still need additional information
from the board (e.g. a write protect pin from board pcm043) while the
larger part of the driver_data-extensions are still generic (e.g. to
imx-esdhc).

> 
> Technically, we can do something like this in the probe():
> 
> if (!pdev->dev.platform_data)
> 	pdev->dev.platform_data = platform_device_id->driver_data;
> 
> pdata->init(dev);
> 
> Note, in this case we must also NULLify platform_data it at remove(),
> as platform_device_release() will try to free statically allocated
> memory.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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> Anton Vorontsov
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