Re: [PATCH 4/4] [Patch-next] ACPI, APEI, HEST Fix the unsuitableusage of platform_data.

[Huang Ying]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 11:00 +0800, Jin Dongming wrote:
> > Why not use platform_device_add_data?
> Here what should be done is to transport the pointer of hest_hdr to platform_data,
> so I think that it could be done successfully by allocating 8byte of memory.
> If the platform_device_add_data() is used, the more memory will be allocated. 
> 
> So I think this method is better than using platform_device_add_data().

You can specify allocation size for platform_device_add_data(), so no
more memory will be allocated.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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