From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750918AbWDLTTr (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:19:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751111AbWDLTTr (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:19:47 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:526 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750918AbWDLTTq (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:19:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:18:35 +0100 From: Russell King To: Rene Herman Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dmitry Torokhov , Jean Delvare , Takashi Iwai , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Is platform_device_register_simple() deprecated? Message-ID: <20060412191835.GA32599@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Rene Herman , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dmitry Torokhov , Jean Delvare , Takashi Iwai , Linux Kernel References: <443D3DED.5030009@keyaccess.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <443D3DED.5030009@keyaccess.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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