Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:39:38 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [DRIVER MODEL] Add platform_driver |
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On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:12:17PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > Introduce struct platform_driver. This allows the platform device > driver methods to be passed a platform_device structure instead of > instead of a plain device structure, and therefore requiring casting > in every platform driver. > > We introduce this in such a way that any existing platform drivers > registered directly via driver_register continue to work as before, > thereby allowing a gradual conversion to the new platform_driver > methods. > > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thanks a lot for doing this work, I really appreciate it and think it is the proper way to move forward (the whole, remove the pointers from the struct driver thing.)
thanks,
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