At Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:37:37 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:09:34AM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote:
As I've said a number of times before AC97 does not support platform data and the ALSA guys blocked adding it.
We're not blocking adding more data to AC97 structures. We just blocked adding new variable when it's not used.
There was a very strong pushback against the idea of adding a void * to the structure, which is what I'd be looking for.
Yes, I was against the void pointer because there is no guarantee of the data-type correctness between the data and the user. The normal drvdata is fine because the creator and the user are the same. But, the proposal of private_driver_data (of the last one, at least) is no such a scenario.
Takashi