From: akpm@linux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: (arm-)global platform device registration functions
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:37:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101229123740.c39238f8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101229162512.GI14221@pengutronix.de>
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:25:12 +0100
Uwe Kleine-K__nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> some time ago I started to dynamically allocate platform_devices for
> arm/plat-mxc. For that purpose I added many functions, see
> arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach/devices-common.h [1]. Now arm/arch-mxs
> want to do the same, so I wonder if it would be sensible to do something
> like this more globally (either for arm or better kernel global).
>
Sounds sensible to me, although I don't really understand what you've
done - didn't platform_device_alloc() already "dynamically allocate
platform_devices"?
If you were to implement this common infrastructure, there may be
already-existing code which could use it. How would we locate that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-29 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-29 16:25 (arm-)global platform device registration functions Uwe Kleine-König
2010-12-29 20:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-12-29 21:18 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-12-30 10:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-12-30 10:15 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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