From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934467AbYBBVAK (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:00:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756400AbYBBU76 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 15:59:58 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48861 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755992AbYBBU74 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 15:59:56 -0500 Subject: patch driver-core-update-some-prototypes-in-platform.txt.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree To: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:57:43 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20080202221507.fd916a3b.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Message-ID: <1201985862276@kroah.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: Driver core: Update some prototypes in platform.txt to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is driver-core-update-some-prototypes-in-platform.txt.patch This tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/ >>From sfr@canb.auug.org.au Sat Feb 2 12:50:36 2008 From: Stephen Rothwell Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 22:15:07 +1100 Subject: Driver core: Update some prototypes in platform.txt To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: LKML Message-ID: <20080202221507.fd916a3b.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Just make these match the actual code. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt @@ -122,15 +122,15 @@ None the less, there are some APIs to su using these calls except with such hotplug-deficient drivers. struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc( - char *name, unsigned id); + const char *name, int id); You can use platform_device_alloc() to dynamically allocate a device, which you will then initialize with resources and platform_device_register(). A better solution is usually: struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple( - char *name, unsigned id, - struct resource *res, unsigned nres); + const char *name, int id, + struct resource *res, unsigned int nres); You can use platform_device_register_simple() as a one-step call to allocate and register a device. Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from sfr@canb.auug.org.au are bad/battery-class-driver.patch driver/ppc-fix-powerpc-vio_find_name-to-not-use-devices_subsys.patch driver/driver-core-update-some-prototypes-in-platform.txt.patch