Re: private field in led_classdev?

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Mar 09 2010 - 22:17:05 EST


On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 03:31:12PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Would there be an objection to adding a void *private field to the
> led_classdev struct? It would be a lot less burden for the input
> key board leds support for finding out the keyboard device from the
> brightness_set callback, as each device may have a long series of leds,
> not just a fixed number of them.

What's wrong with using the private pointer in the struct device
instead? That's what it is there for.

thanks,

greg k-h
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