Re: [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Improved dynamically allocated platform_device interface

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:56:28AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Re-jig the simple platform device support to allow private data
> to be attached to a platform device, as well as allowing the
> parent device to be set.
> 
> Example usage:
> 
> 	pdev = platform_device_alloc("mydev", id);
> 	if (pdev) {
> 		err = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &resources,
> 						    ARRAY_SIZE(resources));
> 		if (err == 0)
> 			err = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &platform_data,
> 						       sizeof(platform_data));
> 		if (err == 0)
> 			err = platform_device_add(pdev);
> 	} else {
> 		err = -ENOMEM;
> 	}
> 	if (err)
> 		platform_device_put(pdev);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

These look great, want me to add them to my tree and get them to Linus
before 2.6.15?

thanks,

greg k-h