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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Couple of sysfs patches
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:14:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040610161442.GC31787@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040610170607.A5830@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:06:07PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> 
> Now that I can see the platform device interfaces multipling like rabbits,
> (to GregKH) I think that the patch I submitted for platform_add_device
> suffers from this problem as well, and I should've thrown that code
> into platform_register_device itself.
> 
> Greg - comments?  Would you like a new patch which does that, or do you
> think that's too risky?

Hm, I don't think it's too risky.  Make up a patch and let's see how it
looks.

I'm just worried that this "simple" interface really isn't so simple, as
it's almost just as much work to manage it as a normal platform device.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-10 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-10 14:46 [PATCH 0/3] Couple of sysfs patches Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-10 16:06 ` Russell King
2004-06-10 16:14   ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-06-10 18:17     ` Russell King
2004-06-10 20:25       ` Russell King
2004-06-16 22:51         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-18 19:29           ` Russell King
2004-06-18 20:39             ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-18 19:59 Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-09  7:21 Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-09 22:13 ` Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <200406091732.28684.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
2004-06-09 22:45     ` Greg KH
     [not found]       ` <200406091754.23303.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
2004-06-09 23:19         ` Greg KH
2004-06-10  6:40           ` Dmitry Torokhov

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