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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: platform device as parent of a miscdevice
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:49:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGNWitB8BYfS12NP@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210330160409.upnyaoyhbu4lll7b@viti.kaiser.cx>

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:04:09PM +0200, Martin Kaiser wrote:
> Yet again, this seems to work ok. I was surprised to see that there's
> very few (if any) mainline drivers that do something similar. Does this
> approach make sense? Does it have any implications that I should be
> aware of (e.g.  does the link between pdev and miscdevice cause problems
> for suspend/resume)?

Not at all, this is what you should be done, and is what many misc
devices do, that's why the parent pointer is there :)

What in-kernel misc drivers do not do that that you feel should?

thanks,

greg k-h

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-30 16:04 platform device as parent of a miscdevice Martin Kaiser
2021-03-30 16:49 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-03-30 19:27   ` Martin Kaiser
2021-03-30 20:09     ` Greg KH

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