From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>,
bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE: Fix platform device registration in Swarm IDE driver
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:51:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080927235138.GA6802@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0809241448480.811@cliff.in.clinika.pl>
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 02:52:07PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > Platform device in the driver itself? Interesting... :-)
>
> Better than nothing for platforms which did not have platform
> initialisation at all. Some driver subsystems do not support
> non-driver-model devices at all or anymore.
Historically registration of the device file in the driver itself wasn't
uncommon before it turned out to be not such a great idea. I hope this
was the last of the affected MIPS-specific drivers.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-27 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-22 12:29 [PATCH] IDE: Fix platform device registration in Swarm IDE driver Ralf Baechle
2008-09-24 11:08 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-24 13:52 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-09-27 23:51 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2008-09-27 16:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-09-28 9:22 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-28 11:39 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-09-28 13:12 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-28 17:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Ralf Baechle
2008-09-28 21:51 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-28 21:57 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-09-29 8:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-10-03 17:00 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-10-03 18:25 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-09-28 11:47 ` [PATCH] " Ralf Baechle
2008-09-28 12:51 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-28 17:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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