From c59f2ac175ec895dd7ddb7921c859c641565fef9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Glass Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 21:42:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] dm: doc: Add a note about of-platdata and header files We don't want to include dt-structs.h in header files, so add a note about that. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass Reviewed-by: Bin Meng --- doc/driver-model/of-plat.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/driver-model/of-plat.rst b/doc/driver-model/of-plat.rst index 557957d..034a68b 100644 --- a/doc/driver-model/of-plat.rst +++ b/doc/driver-model/of-plat.rst @@ -279,6 +279,12 @@ For example: }; +Note that struct mmc_platdata is defined in the C file, not in a header. This +is to avoid needing to include dt-structs.h in a header file. The idea is to +keep the use of each of-platdata struct to the smallest possible code area. +There is just one driver C file for each struct, that can convert from the +of-platdata struct to the standard one used by the driver. + In the case where SPL_OF_PLATDATA is enabled, platdata_auto_alloc_size is still used to allocate space for the platform data. This is different from the normal behaviour and is triggered by the use of of-platdata (strictly -- 2.7.4