[PATCH] staging: comedi: pass through context for USB/PCI auto attach

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 04:28:11PM +0000, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 2012-12-04 14:10, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >You guys have taken some unused code and made it more and more
> >flexible.  I think you should just delete the parameter.  When you
> >need a parameter, then we can add it back.  If you need two
> >parameters then we can add two of them.
> 
> The one current driver that might have a use for it is the vmk80xx
> driver.  That one has `driver_info` values in its USB device table,
> but the driver currently uses that in its USB probe routine to
> allocate and initialize a load of stuff before it calls
> comedi_usb_auto_config().  If the driver was changed to remove the
> manual attachment functionality (the `attach` handler), I think all
> that stuff could be moved to the `auto_attach` handler, in which
> case setting the context parameter to the `driver_info` value would
> be useful.

Yeah, but to force this extra parameter on all other drivers just
because one could use it, isn't the nicest.

I'd prefer the driver_info use if at all possible, as that's what it is
there for.  So I'd like to not apply either of the patches in this
thread, ok?

thanks,

greg k-h