From: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@nokia.com>
To: "ext DebBarma, Tarun Kanti" <tarun.kanti@ti.com>
Cc: "Balbi Felipe (Nokia-MS/Helsinki)" <felipe.balbi@nokia.com>,
Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/8] wireless: wl1271: add platform driver to get board data
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:21:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100812052126.GA23362@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A47E75E594F054BAF48C5E4FC4B92AB0324110AC7@dbde02.ent.ti.com>
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:27:18PM +0200, ext DebBarma, Tarun Kanti wrote:
>Sounds perfect!
>What that means is _probe() function makes sense only for cases where
>we have valid platform data because we are returning right at the top
>if pdata is not valid. If this is the case I was curious to know why
>not framework make another check for valid pdata before calling
>_probe() instead of coming all the way to _probe() and then returning!
because pdata is completely optional. pdev OTOH isn't. Without a matched
platform_device, your probe() won't get called.
--
balbi
DefectiveByDesign.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-12 5:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-11 18:21 [PATCH v4 0/8] native support for wl1271 on ZOOM Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-11 18:21 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] wireless: wl1271: make wl12xx.h common to both spi and sdio Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-11 18:21 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] wireless: wl1271: support return value for the set power func Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-11 18:35 ` DebBarma, Tarun Kanti
2010-08-11 22:19 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-11 18:21 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] wireless: wl1271: add platform driver to get board data Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-11 18:42 ` DebBarma, Tarun Kanti
2010-08-11 18:47 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-08-11 18:52 ` DebBarma, Tarun Kanti
2010-08-11 18:57 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-08-11 19:27 ` DebBarma, Tarun Kanti
2010-08-11 21:25 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-08-11 22:15 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-12 6:40 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-12 9:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-08-13 0:01 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-16 4:21 ` DebBarma, Tarun Kanti
2010-08-12 5:21 ` Felipe Balbi [this message]
2010-08-11 21:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-08-11 20:10 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-11 21:34 ` Vitaly Wool
2010-08-11 22:18 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-12 5:27 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-08-11 18:21 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] wireless: wl1271: take irq info from private " Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-11 18:21 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] wireless: wl1271: make ref_clock configurable by board Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-11 18:21 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] omap: hsmmc: remove unused variable Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-11 18:21 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] omap: zoom: add fixed regulator device for wlan Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-08-11 18:21 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] omap: zoom: add mmc3/wl1271 device support Ohad Ben-Cohen
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