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From: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:45:07 +0200

> The problems with the quick hack approach are:
> 1) Different for each driver
> 2) Need to understand how each driver works to do it
> 3) Need to maintain the driver patch against evolving kernel

Hardware specific solutions for hardware specific problems.

You can instantiate a platform_device that the driver matches
and uses to acquire board-specific-juju such as link modes
which are non-functional.