1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index c5ac81d22303..d2198f64ad4e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -247,7 +247,20 @@ int platform_device_add(struct platform_device *pdev)
         else
                 dev_set_name(&pdev->dev, pdev->name);
 
-        pdev->platform_data = pdev->dev.platform_data;
+        /* We will remove platform_data field from struct device
+        * if all platform devices pass its platform specific data
+        * from platform_device. The conversion is going to be a
+        * long time, so we allow the two cases coexist to make
+        * this kind of fix more easily*/
+        if (pdev->platform_data && pdev->dev.platform_data) {
+                printk(KERN_ERR
+                               "%s: use which platform_data?\n",
+                               dev_name(&pdev->dev));
+        } else if (pdev->platform_data) {
+                pdev->dev.platform_data = pdev->platform_data;
+        } else if (pdev->dev.platform_data) {
+                pdev->platform_data = pdev->dev.platform_data;
+        }
 
         for (i = 0; i < pdev->num_resources; i++) {
                 struct resource *p, *r = &pdev->resource[i];