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    Revert driver core: move platform_data into platform_device · e67c8562
    Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
    This reverts commit 006f4571:
    
    	This patch moves platform_data from struct device into
    	struct platform_device, based on the two ideas:
    
    	1. Now all platform_driver is registered by platform_driver_register,
    	   which makes probe()/release()/... of platform_driver passed parameter
    	   of platform_device *, so platform driver can get platform_data from
    	   platform_device;
    
    	2. Other kind of devices do not need to use platform_data, we can
    	   decrease size of device if moving it to platform_device.
    
    	Taking into consideration of thousands of files to be fixed and they
    	can't be finished in one night(maybe it will take a long time), so we
    	keep platform_data in device to allow two kind of cases coexist until
    	all platform devices pass its platfrom data from
    	platform_device->platform_data.
    
    	All patches to do this kind of conversion are welcome.
    
    As we don't really want to do it, it was a bad idea.
    
    Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
    Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
    
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