Re: [PATCH 2/3] cpufreq: dt: Add generic platform-device creation support

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Tue Mar 29 2016 - 00:04:07 EST


On 24.03.2016 15:40, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Multiple platforms are using the generic cpufreq-dt driver now, and all
> of them are required to create a platform device with name "cpufreq-dt",
> in order to get the cpufreq-dt probed.
>
> Many of them do it from platform code, others have special drivers just
> to do that.
>
> It would be more sensible to do this at a generic place, where all such
> platform can mark their entries.
>
> This patch adds a separate file to get this device created. Currently
> the compat list of platforms that we support is empty, and will be
> filled in as and when we move platforms to use it.
>
> It always compiles as part of the kernel and so doesn't need a
> module-exit operation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++
> drivers/cpufreq/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt-platdev.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt-platdev.c

Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>



Best regards,

Krzysztof