On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> wrote:
> This fixes reloading of the driver for the same device: First of all,
> the driver sets drvdata to its own value during probing and does not
> restore the original value on exit. But this won't help anyway as the
> core clears drvdata after the driver left.
>
> Use stable platform_data instead.
>From the above I didn't clearly get what device you are talking about.
GPIO?
Can you provide step by step what you did and what bug you got?
Regarding below it looks to me a bit hackish.
> static int gpio_exar_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> - struct pci_dev *pcidev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> + struct pci_dev *pcidev = *(struct pci_dev **)pdev->dev.platform_data;
> struct exar_gpio_chip *exar_gpio;
> void __iomem *p;
> int index, ret;
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c
> b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c
> index b4fa585156c7..2d056d1eeca3 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c
> @@ -196,8 +196,12 @@ xr17v35x_register_gpio(struct pci_dev *pcidev)
> if (!pdev)
> return NULL;
>
> - platform_set_drvdata(pdev, pcidev);
> - if (platform_device_add(pdev) < 0) {
> + /*
> + * platform_device_add_data kmemdups the data, therefore we can safely
> + * pass a stack reference.
> + */
> + if (platform_device_add_data(pdev, &pcidev, sizeof(pcidev)) < 0 ||
> + platform_device_add(pdev) < 0) {
> platform_device_put(pdev);
> return NULL;
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
