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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/5] colibri-pxa3xx: add touchscreen support
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 18:53:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007091853.41395.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007091847.59787.pieterg@gmx.com>

On Friday 09 July 2010, pieterg wrote:
> >
> > But doesn't the code still create both devices in /sys/devices/platform
> > then? AFAICT, there is no runtime probing support to make sure you only
> > register the device that is there.
> 
> Yes, they both show up. But at least the do not conflict, and only the 
> detected device will register an input device.

That's still putting the logic into the wrong place. If you have a way
to detect the hardware, that should be done before creating the device,
otherwise there is no point in having a platform device to start with
and you could just detect it in your module_init function.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-09 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-08 20:49 [PATCH v2 5/5] colibri-pxa3xx: add touchscreen support pieterg
2010-07-08 23:03 ` Marek Vasut
2010-07-09  7:03   ` pieterg
2010-07-09 13:32     ` Marek Vasut
2010-07-09 16:14     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-09 16:47       ` pieterg
2010-07-09 16:53         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-07-09 17:21           ` pieterg
2010-07-09 17:25             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-09  7:18 ` Daniel Mack

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