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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>,
	cbou@mail.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, dilinger@queued.net,
	dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] olpc_battery: convert to platform device
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:39:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5C602E.9050106@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297896277.3011.5.camel@macbook.infradead.org>

On 02/16/2011 02:44 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:28 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
>>
>> +static int __init add_common_platform_devices(void)
>> +{
>> +       struct platform_device *pdev;
>> +
>> +       pdev = platform_device_register_simple("olpc-battery", -1, NULL, 0);
>> +       if (IS_ERR(pdev))
>> +               return PTR_ERR(pdev);
>> +
>> +       return 0;
>> +}
>> + 
> 
> Still kind of sucks that you have to do this, and can't bind to
> something in the device-tree.
> 

Any reason you can't include a device tree in the OLPC kernel?

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-16 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-16 22:28 [PATCH v3] olpc_battery: convert to platform device Daniel Drake
2011-02-16 22:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-16 22:44 ` David Woodhouse
2011-02-16 23:39   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-02-18 23:42   ` Daniel Drake
2011-02-19  3:06     ` [PATCH] of/pdt: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness Andres Salomon
2011-02-19  3:12       ` [PATCH] of/pdt: don't bother parsing pkg2path results, return as-is Andres Salomon
2011-02-23 19:45         ` Grant Likely
2011-02-23 19:43       ` [PATCH] of/pdt: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness Grant Likely
2011-02-23 19:54         ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-23 20:06           ` Daniel Drake
2011-02-23 20:37             ` Grant Likely
2011-02-23 20:35           ` Grant Likely

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