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    V4L/DVB (10568): bttv: dynamically allocate device data · 4b10d3b6
    Trent Piepho authored
    The bttv driver had static array of structures for up to 16 possible bttv
    devices, even though few users have more than one or two.  The structures
    were quite large and this resulted in a huge BSS segment.
    
    Change the driver to allocate the bttv device data dynamically, which
    changes "struct bttv bttvs[BTTV_MAX]" to "struct bttv *bttvs[BTTV_MAX]".
    It would be nice to get ride of "bttvs" entirely but there are some
    complications with gpio access from the audio & mpeg drivers.
    
    To help bttvs removal along anyway, I changed the open() methods use the
    video device's drvdata to get the driver data instead of looking it up in
    the bttvs array.  This is also more efficient.  Some WARN_ON()s are added
    in cases the device node exists by the bttv device doesn't, which I don't
    think should be possible.
    
    The gpio access functions need to check if bttvs[card] is NULL now.  Though
    calling them on a non-existent card in the first place is wrong, but hard
    to solve given the fundamental problems in how the gpio access code works.
    
    This patch reduces the bss size by 66560 bytes on ia32.  Overall change is a
    reduction of 66398 bytes, as the WARN_ON()s add some 198 bytes.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTrent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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