From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5-git 2/2] update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:59:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070402215900.GA22728@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000704021316o7e30d51ej3f4a749ce5a49b5a@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:16:03PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 3/31/07, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> >+A better solution is usually:
> >+
> >+ struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(
> >+ char *name, unsigned id,
> >+ struct resource *res, unsigned nres);
> >+
> >+You can use platform_device_register_simple() as a one-step call to
> >allocate
> >+and register a device.
>
> DIdn't Russell want to convert eberything to platform_device_alloc and
> then nuke platfrom_device_register_simple()?
That was my long term plan - since I don't like APIs which "grow" lots
of different and redundant interfaces.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-31 21:58 [patch 2.6.21-rc5-git 2/2] update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt David Brownell
2007-04-02 20:16 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-02 21:59 ` Russell King [this message]
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