From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:54084 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759218Ab0HLJ4o (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:56:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:55:46 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Ohad Ben-Cohen Cc: "DebBarma, Tarun Kanti" , "felipe.balbi@nokia.com" , Kalle Valo , "Pandita, Vikram" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "Quadros Roger (Nokia-MS/Helsinki)" , Tony Lindgren , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Mark Brown , "linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org" , Nicolas Pitre , San Mehat , "Chikkature Rajashekar, Madhusudhan" , "Coelho Luciano (Nokia-MS/Helsinki)" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , Ido Yariv , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/8] wireless: wl1271: add platform driver to get board data Message-ID: <20100812095546.GA3354@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1281550913-17633-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> <1281550913-17633-4-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> <5A47E75E594F054BAF48C5E4FC4B92AB0324110ABD@dbde02.ent.ti.com> <20100811184742.GA21778@nokia.com> <5A47E75E594F054BAF48C5E4FC4B92AB0324110AC1@dbde02.ent.ti.com> <20100811185724.GD21778@nokia.com> <5A47E75E594F054BAF48C5E4FC4B92AB0324110AC7@dbde02.ent.ti.com> <20100811212513.GC827@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 09:40:19AM +0300, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > >I've outlined a far simpler and easiler solution > > which avoids this kind of abuse, and given suggestions on how to extend > > it to support multiple instances. > > > > Do you mean: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg95338.html > ? > > I was under the impression you eventually discarded that approach in > that post. Indeed. I'm talking about my first suggestion: http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20100804.114148.bf961e83.en.html which was later expanded by Vitaly: http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20100804.140119.f476c29c.en.html I don't think anyone had any negative comments against that proposal.