Re: [PATCH] ARM: shmobile: ape6evm: fix incorrect placement of __initdata tag

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Bartlomiej,

Thank you for the patch.

On Monday 30 September 2013 15:07:47 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> __initdata tag should be placed between the variable name and equal
> sign for the variable to be placed in the intended .init.data section.
> 
> In this particular case __initdata is incorrect as ape6evm_keys_pdata
> can be used as a platform data for gpio-keys driver which can be
> compiled as module.

A pointer to the ape6evm_keys_pdata structure is passed to the 
platform_device_register_data() function, which makes a copy of the structure. 
Marking it as __initdata is thus correct.

> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c
> b/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c index 7627385..8954f55 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static struct gpio_keys_button gpio_buttons[] = {
>  	GPIO_KEY(KEY_VOLUMEDOWN,	329,	"S21"),
>  };
> 
> -static struct __initdata gpio_keys_platform_data ape6evm_keys_pdata = {
> +static struct gpio_keys_platform_data ape6evm_keys_pdata = {
>  	.buttons	= gpio_buttons,
>  	.nbuttons	= ARRAY_SIZE(gpio_buttons),
>  };
-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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