Re: [PATCH]add private data to struct notifier_bock

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 09:19 -0700, mark gross wrote:
> I am working with one of the iwl4965 developers to add pm_qos based
> power management to its power states.  We relalized that the block
> notifier I used in the PM_QOS has no way of passing in any driver device
> instance data.  In this case the developer expected the notification
> call backs to call the iwl4965 notification function with an instance
> pointer to the correct *dev.
> 
> Poking around I've noticed a handful of drivers using notifications that
> seem to keep a list of instance pointers around so it can plug into the
> notification infrastructure.  including : ipmi_msghandler.c adb_hid.c
> md.c ips.c
> 
> As having a registered call back called with a private data pointer set
> up at registration time  is such a common idiom I thought it might be a
> good thing to add a private_data pointer to the struct notifier_block
> and add the interfaces needed to pass the private data as the
> notification chain is processed.

How is:

struct my_device_thingy {
	...
	struct notifier_block my_notifier;
	...
};

int my_device_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val
			    void *data)
{
	struct my_device_thingy *mdt = container_of(nb, struct
				 my_device_thingy, my_notifier);

	...
}

not sufficient?