From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>,
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is platform_device_register_simple() deprecated?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:18:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060412191835.GA32599@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <443D3DED.5030009@keyaccess.nl>
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:50:37PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> Hi Greg, Russel, Dmitry.
>
> ALSA is using platform_device_register_simple(). Jean Delvare pointed:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113398060508534&w=2
>
> out, where _simple looks to be slated for removal. Is this indeed the
> case? ALSA isn't using the resources -- doing a manual alloc/add would
> not be a problem...
It would be good to remove the old (restricted) API - I'm of the opinion
that having too many interfaces just adds extra maintainence burden, so
we should strive to ensure that old APIs are deprecated and removed in
a timely fashion.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-12 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-12 17:50 Is platform_device_register_simple() deprecated? Rene Herman
2006-04-12 19:18 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-04-12 21:41 ` Greg KH
2006-04-12 23:09 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-12 23:30 ` Greg KH
2006-04-13 18:32 ` Kumar Gala
2006-04-13 2:30 ` Rene Herman
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