Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: Fix broken abuse of dev->driver_data

From: Dominik Brodowski
Date: Mon Sep 22 2008 - 18:27:15 EST


On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:12:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Nod..
...
> Looks like a mailer folded it later, but the patch itself seems just fine.

*gnah* already applied upstream, including the comment implying that PCMCIA
driver's making use of driver_data were correct, while they were not. At
least the trailing whitespace didn't get merged.

> > >
> > > - put_module:
> > > +put_module:
> > > if (ret)
> > > module_put(p_drv->owner);
> > > - put_dev:
> > > +put_dev:
> >
> > unrelated -- please do not change it this time.
>
> Not sure you can have it both ways - if you don't want stray whitespace
> then fixing the labels to conform to coding style seems to go with it ;)

Well, there's a difference, and I know you know that I know that you know ;)
but you should also know that I already tried to apply the patch as it is,
which implies that I do not object too strongly to the removal of these two
non-characters from ds.c ;)

Thanks,
Dominik
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