Re: [PATCH] of: Turn of_match_node into a static inline when CONFIG_OF isn't set

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 11 February 2014 19:29:19 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Josh Cartwright <joshc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ideally, all xxx_device_id look like
> 
>     struct xxx_device_id {
>             ... /* bus-specific ID information */
>             kernel_ulong_t driver_data;
>     };
> 
> This may be formalized in some way, using a base class, but thay may
> require reordering the fields, like:
> 
>     struct base_device_id {
>             kernel_ulong_t driver_data;
>             long id[0];
>     };
> 

You can't reorder the fields because they are shared with user
space in form of the module-init-tools.

	Arnd
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