Re: [PATCH] Minor change to platform_device_register_simple prototype

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-12-07T06:05:45Z

On Monday 05 December 2005 15:27, Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:23:37PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > The name parameter of platform_device_register_simple should be of
> > type const char * instead of char *, as we simply pass it to
> > platform_device_alloc, where it has type const char *.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
>
> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
>
> However, I've been wondering whether we want to keep this "simple"
> interface around long-term given that we now have a more flexible
> platform device allocation interface - I don't particularly like
> having superfluous interfaces for folk to get confused with.

Now that you made platform_device_alloc install default release
handler there is no need to have the _simple interface. I will
convert input devices (main users of _simple) to the new interface
and then we can get rid of it.

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Dmitry