Re: Clarifying platform_device_unregister

["Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
>  On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:14:35PM -0400, Jaya Kumar wrote:
>  >         mytest_device->dev.platform_data = &mydata;
>
>  Platform device code does kfree(pdev->dev.platform_data) unpon
>  unregistration, so it is not a good idea to assign address of
>  statically-allocated variable here. You should be using:
>
>         platform_device_add_data(mytest_device, &mydata, sizeof(mydata));
>

That's interesting. I noticed though that a lot of platform device
code assigns a statically allocated structure to platform_data. For
example:

arch/arm/mach-pxa/corgi_pm.c
static struct sharpsl_charger_machinfo corgi_pm_machinfo = {
...
}
        corgipm_device->dev.platform_data = &corgi_pm_machinfo;

same with spitz_pm.c.

egrep "platform_data.*=.*\&" *.c shows quite a lot of users doing
that. I guess most of these below are probably okay since these
drivers can't be rmmoded.

corgi.c:                .platform_data  = &corgi_scoop_setup,
corgi.c:                .platform_data  = &corgi_bl_machinfo,
corgi.c:                .platform_data  = &corgi_ts_machinfo,
corgi_lcd.c:            .platform_data = &corgi_fb_info,
corgi_pm.c:     corgipm_device->dev.platform_data = &corgi_pm_machinfo;
generic.c:              .platform_data  = &pxa_udc_info,
lpd270.c:                       .platform_data  = &lpd270_flash_data[0],
lpd270.c:                       .platform_data  = &lpd270_flash_data[1],
lubbock.c:              .platform_data  = &pxa_ssp_master_info,
lubbock.c:      .platform_data  = &ads_info,
lubbock.c:                      .platform_data = &lubbock_flash_data[0],
lubbock.c:                      .platform_data = &lubbock_flash_data[1],
mainstone.c:    .dev            = { .platform_data = &mst_audio_ops },
mainstone.c:                    .platform_data = &mst_flash_data[0],
mainstone.c:                    .platform_data = &mst_flash_data[1],
poodle.c:               .platform_data  = &poodle_scoop_setup,
poodle.c:               .platform_data  = &poodle_ts_machinfo,
spitz.c:                .platform_data  = &spitz_scoop_setup,
spitz.c:                .platform_data  = &spitz_scoop2_setup,
spitz.c:                .platform_data  = &spitz_bl_machinfo,
spitz.c:                .platform_data  = &spitz_ts_machinfo,
spitz_pm.c:     spitzpm_device->dev.platform_data = &spitz_pm_machinfo;
tosa.c:                 .platform_data  = &tosa_scoop_setup,
tosa.c:                 .platform_data  = &tosa_scoop_jc_setup,
trizeps4.c:             .platform_data = &trizeps4_flash_data,