Re: [PATCH] Minor change to platform_device_register_simple prototype

[Russell King]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:58:15PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 03:06:15PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Ok, that's fine with me.  Russell, any objections?
> > 
> > None what so ever - that's mostly what I envisioned with the patch
> > with the _del method.  However, I didn't have an existing user for it.
> 
> Do you mean you have the code already? If it is so, could you please
> provide a patch Dmitry and I can give a try to?

No; I mean I _had_ the code, and it could probably be dug out, but
subsequent patch revisions removed it.  It's probably archived in a
mail somewhere.

> If not, I am willing to give it a try, if you provide some guidance. I
> think I understand that platform_device_del would be the first half of
> platform_device_unregister, but do we then want to rebuild
> platform_device_unregister on top of platform_device_del so as to avoid
> code duplication, or not?

Yes on all counts.

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