Re: Is platform_device_register_simple() deprecated?

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Apr 12, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:09:48PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>>> 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...
>>>
>>> Great, care to convert ALSA to use the proper api so we can remove
>>> platform_device_register_simple()?
>>
>> Can we mark this deprecated and add it to feature-removal- 
>> schedule.txt.
>
> Sure, I'll take a patch for that.  But really, it's just easier to fix
> up all callers and delete the function.  It isn't anything that
> feature-removal-schedule.txt should care about, as it's just the  
> normal
> API changes we do all the time.


Well, it is an exported interface so I figured that fit in the same  
category as removing the export of insert_resource.

But, I'm not too concerned one way or the other about it.

- k