From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE: Fix platform device registration in Swarm IDE driver Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:51:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20080927235138.GA6802@linux-mips.org> References: <20080922122853.GA15210@linux-mips.org> <48DA1F9D.6000501@ru.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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