Re: [PATCH] [DRIVER MODEL] Improved dynamically allocated platform_device interface

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Nov 05 2005 - 10:43:35 EST


On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:56:28AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Re-jig the simple platform device support to allow private data
> to be attached to a platform device, as well as allowing the
> parent device to be set.
>
> Example usage:
>
> pdev = platform_device_alloc("mydev", id);
> if (pdev) {
> err = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &resources,
> ARRAY_SIZE(resources));
> if (err == 0)
> err = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &platform_data,
> sizeof(platform_data));
> if (err == 0)
> err = platform_device_add(pdev);
> } else {
> err = -ENOMEM;
> }
> if (err)
> platform_device_put(pdev);
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

These look great, want me to add them to my tree and get them to Linus
before 2.6.15?

thanks,

greg k-h
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