Am Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2011, 11:40:35 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:26:54PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:23:48AM +0200, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > i like to use the nvec driver with an arm soc board. What's the "usual" 
> > > way
> > > to get> > 
> > > access to the platform data (in nvec.h)? I see three options:
> > >   a) just add #include "../../../drivers/staging/nvec/nvec.h" to the board
> > >   file as> > 
> > > long as the driver is still in staging and update it after the driver got
> > > blessed> 
> > Don't do this.
> > 
> > >   b) create some standalone file in
> > >   include/linux/platform_data/tegra_nvec.h with> > 
> > > just the platform data inside
> > 
> > Sounds good.  It's just the struct definitions that you need yes?
> 
> Yes, please do this, it's ok to have platform data for staging drivers
> in the platform_data include directory due to the issues for this type
> of problem.

ok, I may come up with a fouth solution which is using the device tree.

Thanks 

Marc

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