Re: [PATCH 3/5] watchdog: cleanup a bit omap_wdt.c

[David Brownell]

On Friday 19 September 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>  static int omap_wdt_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  {
> -       struct omap_wdt_dev *wdev;
> -       void __iomem *base;
> -       wdev = platform_get_drvdata(omap_wdt_dev);
> -       base = wdev->base;
> +       struct omap_wdt_dev *wdev = platform_get_drvdata(omap_wdt_dev);
> +       void __iomem *base = wdev->base;
> +

Oh, I see where "omap_wdt_dev" (global) gets used.  The normal
way to do stuff like that is using void* pointers placed in the
inode and file structures for exactly that purpose.


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