[PATCH v5 3/7] wireless: wl12xx: add platform data passing support

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:42:41PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> W dniu 6 września 2010 14:07 użytkownik Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> napisał:
> > On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 02:23:19PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> >> 2010/9/1 Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad at wizery.com>:
> >> > Add a simple mechanism to pass platform data to the
> >> > SDIO instances of wl12xx.
> [cut patch]
> >> Why do you need all that copying? Isn't the data constant?
> >
> > The first copy is to allow platforms to have their data marked with
> > __initdata.  The second copy probably isn't necessary, but avoids
> > problems where the driver may decide to modify the platform data.
> 
> Sorry for pushing at this, but why would you mark data that's meant to
> be used after init phase as __initdata?

Because you may have many instances of the data (due to multiple platform
support), and only need one of them at run-time.