[RFC v2 6/8] gpu: drm: tegra: Remove redundant host1x

[Stephen Warren]

On 12/20/2012 10:46 AM, Terje Bergström wrote:
> On 20.12.2012 19:14, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> I'm not sure that sounds right. drvdata is something that a driver
>> should manage itself.
>>
>> What's wrong with just having each device ask the host1x (its parent)
>> for a pointer to the (dummy) tegradrm device. That seems extremely
>> simple, and doesn't require abusing existing stuff like drvdata for
>> non-standard purposes.
> 
> This is tegradrm's own data, and it's tegradrm which accesses the
> pointer. So it's entirely something that the driver takes care of itself.

So it's fine for the tegradrm driver to manipulate the tegradrm
(virtual) device's drvdata pointer.

It's not fine for tegradrm to manipulate the drvdata pointer of other
devices; the host1x children. The drvdata pointer for other devices is
reserved for those devices' driver's use only.