[PATCH] ARM: shmobile: ape6evm: fix incorrect placement of __initdata tag
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
b.zolnierkie at samsung.com
Mon Sep 30 11:31:08 EDT 2013
Hi,
On Monday, September 30, 2013 05:05:37 PM Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Bartlomiej,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Monday 30 September 2013 15:07:47 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > __initdata tag should be placed between the variable name and equal
> > sign for the variable to be placed in the intended .init.data section.
> >
> > In this particular case __initdata is incorrect as ape6evm_keys_pdata
> > can be used as a platform data for gpio-keys driver which can be
> > compiled as module.
>
> A pointer to the ape6evm_keys_pdata structure is passed to the
> platform_device_register_data() function, which makes a copy of the structure.
> Marking it as __initdata is thus correct.
Thanks for catching this. I'll fix the patch and post v2.
Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics
> > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c
> > b/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c index 7627385..8954f55 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c
> > @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static struct gpio_keys_button gpio_buttons[] = {
> > GPIO_KEY(KEY_VOLUMEDOWN, 329, "S21"),
> > };
> >
> > -static struct __initdata gpio_keys_platform_data ape6evm_keys_pdata = {
> > +static struct gpio_keys_platform_data ape6evm_keys_pdata = {
> > .buttons = gpio_buttons,
> > .nbuttons = ARRAY_SIZE(gpio_buttons),
> > };
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