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

From: Russell King
Date: Sat Nov 05 2005 - 12:20:30 EST


On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:42:10AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

I'm also happy to add them to my tree. Are you okay with that?

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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