From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754596AbYIVSug (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:50:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753286AbYIVSu2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:50:28 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:33254 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753159AbYIVSu1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:50:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:47:00 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Carlos Corbacho Cc: Akinobu Mita , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] acer-wmi: add error checks in module_init Message-ID: <20080922184700.GC11949@kroah.com> References: <200809211853.19889.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> <20080922155949.GA4283@kroah.com> <200809221854.44615.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200809221854.44615.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 06:54:44PM +0100, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2008 16:59:49 Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 06:53:19PM +0100, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > > > On Sunday 21 September 2008 15:29:59 Akinobu Mita wrote: > > > > This patch fixes these bugs by using platform_device_register_simple() > > > > > > [Adding Greg KH to CC - 2nd time lucky...] > > > > > > Last I heard, platform_device_register_simple() was in the process of > > > being deprecated and then slated for future removal. Has this changed? > > > > I don't recall this, but someone else might have stated it a while ago. > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2006-04/msg02070.html > > This was dated a while ago, but has anything changed since then? Not that I know of, I just forgot about it :) thanks, greg k-h