Re: [PATCH] Minor change to platform_device_register_simple prototype

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

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 03:06:15PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:59:24PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Yes, the I can just write:
> > 
> >         ...
> >         err = platform_driver_register(&i8042_driver);
> >         if (err)
> >                 goto err_controller_cleanup;
> > 
> >         i8042_platform_device = platform_device_alloc("i8042", -1);
> >         if (!i8042_platform_device) {
> >                 err = -ENOMEM;
> >                 goto err_unregister_driver;
> >         }
> > 
> >         err = platform_device_add(i8042_platform_device);
> >         if (err)
> >                 goto err_free_device;
> >         ...
> > 
> >         if (!have_ports) {
> >                 err = -ENODEV;
> >                 goto err_delete_device;
> >         }
> > 
> >         mod_timer(&i8042_timer, jiffies + I8042_POLL_PERIOD);
> >         return 0;
> > 
> >  err_delete_device:
> >         platform_device_del(i8042_platform_device);
> >  err_free_device:
> >         platform_device_put(i8042_platform_device);
> >  err_unregister_driver:
> >         platform_driver_unregister(&i8042_driver);
> >  ....
> > 
> > As you can see - single cleanup path..
> 
> Ok, that's fine with me.  Russell, any objections?

None what so ever - that's mostly what I envisioned with the patch
with the _del method.  However, I didn't have an existing user for it.

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