From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Improved dynamically allocated platform_device interface
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 07:42:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051105154210.GA20598@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051105105628.GE28438@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:56:28AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Re-jig the simple platform device support to allow private data
> to be attached to a platform device, as well as allowing the
> parent device to be set.
>
> Example usage:
>
> pdev = platform_device_alloc("mydev", id);
> if (pdev) {
> err = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &resources,
> ARRAY_SIZE(resources));
> if (err == 0)
> err = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &platform_data,
> sizeof(platform_data));
> if (err == 0)
> err = platform_device_add(pdev);
> } else {
> err = -ENOMEM;
> }
> if (err)
> platform_device_put(pdev);
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
These look great, want me to add them to my tree and get them to Linus
before 2.6.15?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-05 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-05 10:56 [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Improved dynamically allocated platform_device interface Russell King
2005-11-05 10:57 ` [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Fix depca Russell King
2005-11-05 10:58 ` [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Fix jazzsonic Russell King
2005-11-05 10:58 ` [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Fix macsonic Russell King
2005-11-05 10:59 ` [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Fix arcfb Russell King
2005-11-05 10:59 ` [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Fix gbefb Russell King
2005-11-05 11:00 ` [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Fix sgivwfb Russell King
2005-11-05 11:02 ` [RFC] [DRIVER MODEL] Make other buggy drivers warn Russell King
2005-11-05 15:42 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-11-05 17:19 ` [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Improved dynamically allocated platform_device interface Russell King
2005-11-05 19:40 ` Greg KH
2005-11-05 17:23 ` Russell King
2005-11-05 21:38 ` Russell King
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