[U-Boot] [PATCH RFT] gpio: lpc32xx: Use priv data instead of platdata
Albert ARIBAUD
albert.aribaud at 3adev.fr
Mon Apr 13 10:41:50 CEST 2015
Hi Axel,
Le Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:20:08 +0800, Axel Lin <axel.lin at ingics.com> a
écrit :
> Initially I found this driver has set priv_auto_alloc_size but it actually
> never use dev->priv. The U_BOOT_DEVICE(lpc32xx_gpios) does not provide the
> platdata and all fields in struct lpc32xx_gpio_platdata are set in probe.
> It looks like the struct lpc32xx_gpio_platdata actually should be a priv
> data. Thus this patch renames lpc32xx_gpio_platdata to lpc32xx_gpio_priv
> and converts all dev_get_platdata() to dev_get_priv().
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin at ingics.com>
> ---
> Hi Albert,
> I don't have this h/w for testing, so only compile test.
> I'd appreciate if you can review and test this patch.
> Thanks,
> Axel
Indeed the driver allocates priv and does not use it. However, I think
that the allocation should be removed as useless, rather than plat data
be converted to priv. IIUC, priv is a way to apply a single driver to
several similar devices, and LPC32XX only has one GPIO device.
Cordialement,
Albert ARIBAUD
3ADEV
More information about the U-Boot
mailing list