Re: [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Improved dynamically allocated platform_device interface

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:42:10AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

I'm also happy to add them to my tree.  Are you okay with that?

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core