[PATCH 3/3] Add platform_device_simple_release

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

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ChangeSet@1.1837, 2004-06-09 01:36:36-05:00, dtor_core@ameritech.net
  sysfs: add platform_device_simple_release that just frees memory
         occupied by platform device. The function can be used by
         simple platform devices, when all resources except for memory
         can be deallocated beforehand. By having final release function
         in the driver core module can be unloaded without waiting for
         the last reference to the device to be dropped.
  
  Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>


 drivers/base/platform.c |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/device.h  |    1 +
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)


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diff -Nru a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c	2004-06-09 01:40:26 -05:00
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c	2004-06-09 01:40:26 -05:00
@@ -43,12 +43,32 @@
 	return device_register(&pdev->dev);
 }
 
+/**
+ *	platform_device_unregister - remove a platform-level device
+ *	@dev:	platform device we're removing
+ *
+ */
 void platform_device_unregister(struct platform_device * pdev)
 {
 	if (pdev)
 		device_unregister(&pdev->dev);
 }
 
+/**
+ *	platform_device_simple_release - free a platform-level device
+ *	@dev:	platform device we're freeing
+ *
+ *	This canned release function can be used for simple platform
+ *	devices. By having the function outside of driver module it
+ *	can be unloaded without waiting for the device to be released
+ *	(provided that the device has been dynamically allocated).
+ */
+void platform_device_simple_release(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
+
+	kfree(pdev);
+}
 
 /**
  *	platform_match - bind platform device to platform driver.
@@ -117,3 +137,4 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(platform_bus_type);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(platform_device_register);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(platform_device_unregister);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(platform_device_simple_release);
diff -Nru a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
--- a/include/linux/device.h	2004-06-09 01:40:26 -05:00
+++ b/include/linux/device.h	2004-06-09 01:40:26 -05:00
@@ -386,6 +386,7 @@
 
 extern int platform_device_register(struct platform_device *);
 extern void platform_device_unregister(struct platform_device *);
+extern void platform_device_simple_release(struct device *);
 
 extern struct bus_type platform_bus_type;
 extern struct device platform_bus;