Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] of/device: populate platform_device (of_device) resource table on allocation

From: Anton Vorontsov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:52:43 +0400

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:01:40AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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> But this requires extra, bogus fields in the structure

False. The [0] field isn't bogus, it has a defined meaning.
It says: here is some amount of resouces may be allocated.

> and creates a bogus sizeof issue.

Creates? False. The same sizeof problem exists in Grant's
approach. sizeof(*dev) != what_we_have_allocated. Which is
isn't great, I agree. And that's exactly why I proposed a
dedicated allocation in the first place.

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