[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Palm interrupt driven touchscreen driver

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Thu Jun 4 12:38:07 CEST 2009


On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:44:22AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

> > 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.

Do you have a pointer to this proposal?  I don't remember it and my
google-fu is weak today.


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