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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:39:26 -0800
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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] olpc_battery: convert to platform device
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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