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| author | Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> | 2014-04-14 12:54:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-05-27 12:37:18 -0700 |
| commit | 1bb6c08abfb653ce6e65d8ab4ddef403227afedf (patch) | |
| tree | dba61f690d899880c97229b778f9fae838b9678a /drivers/base | |
| parent | 5cbb00cc4aae56378bf5376a62b4df3b89c28f92 (diff) | |
driver core: Move driver_data back to struct device
Having to allocate memory as part of dev_set_drvdata() is a problem
because that memory may never get freed if the device itself is not
created. So move driver_data back to struct device.
This is a partial revert of commit b4028437.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/base.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/dd.c | 13 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h index 24f424249d9b..251c5d30f963 100644 --- a/drivers/base/base.h +++ b/drivers/base/base.h @@ -63,8 +63,6 @@ struct driver_private { * binding of drivers which were unable to get all the resources needed by * the device; typically because it depends on another driver getting * probed first. - * @driver_data - private pointer for driver specific info. Will turn into a - * list soon. * @device - pointer back to the struct class that this structure is * associated with. * @@ -76,7 +74,6 @@ struct device_private { struct klist_node knode_driver; struct klist_node knode_bus; struct list_head deferred_probe; - void *driver_data; struct device *device; }; #define to_device_private_parent(obj) \ diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c index 62ec61e8f84a..d14b6e895896 100644 --- a/drivers/base/dd.c +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c @@ -594,22 +594,15 @@ void driver_detach(struct device_driver *drv) */ void *dev_get_drvdata(const struct device *dev) { - if (dev && dev->p) - return dev->p->driver_data; + if (dev) + return dev->driver_data; return NULL; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_drvdata); int dev_set_drvdata(struct device *dev, void *data) { - int error; - - if (!dev->p) { - error = device_private_init(dev); - if (error) - return error; - } - dev->p->driver_data = data; + dev->driver_data = data; return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_set_drvdata); |