Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] driver core: add a faux bus for use when a simple device/bus is needed

Alan Stern
2025-02-04T15:31:50Z

On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 12:09:13PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Many drivers abuse the platform driver/bus system as it provides a
> simple way to create and bind a device to a driver-specific set of
> probe/release functions. Instead of doing that, and wasting all of the
> memory associated with a platform device, here is a "faux" bus that
> can be used instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---

> +/**
> + * faux_device_create - create and register a faux device and driver
> + * @name: name of the device and driver we are adding
> + * @faux_ops: struct faux_driver_ops that the new device will call back into, can be NULL
> + *
> + * Create a new faux device and driver, both with the same name, and
> + * register them in the driver core properly.

Along the same lines as Danilo's comment, this routine does not create a
new driver any more.

Alan Stern