Re: [PATCH] miscdevice: introduce builtin_misc_device

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Oct 28 2016 - 08:22:32 EST


On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 06:36:05PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> This is basically the same as module_misc_device but without the
> presence of an exit/remove function. Similar in nature to the
> commit f309d4443130bf814e991f836e919dca22df37ae ("platform_device:
> better support builtin boilerplate avoidance").
>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> [I've got several users of this in my local queue; but I'll stagger
> those and this by a merge window to avoid dependency issues.]

Send them on, I'll be glad to take them through my tree if you want to.

thanks,

greg k-h