[RESEND PATCH v2 4/5] drm/bridge/analogix: Do not use device's drvdata

Andrzej Hajda a.hajda at samsung.com
Mon Oct 16 03:44:09 PDT 2017


On 16.10.2017 12:06, Jeffy Chen wrote:
> From: Tomasz Figa <tfiga at chromium.org>
>
> The driver that instantiates the bridge should own the drvdata, as all
> driver model callbacks (probe, remove, shutdown, PM ops, etc.) are also
> owned by its driver struct. Moreover, storing two different pointer
> types in driver data depending on driver initialization status is barely
> a good practice and in fact has led to many bugs in this driver.
>
> Let's clean up this mess and change Analogix entry points to simply
> accept some opaque struct pointer, adjusting their users at the same
> time to avoid breaking the compilation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga at chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen at rock-chips.com>

Thanks for making it a bit saner.

Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda at samsung.com>

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Regards
Andrzej



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