Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Dec 2005 12:59:09 -0500 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Minor change to platform_device_register_simple prototype |
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On 12/7/05, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote: > On Monday 05 December 2005 15:27, Russell King wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:23:37PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > The name parameter of platform_device_register_simple should be of > > > type const char * instead of char *, as we simply pass it to > > > platform_device_alloc, where it has type const char *. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> > > > > Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> > > > > However, I've been wondering whether we want to keep this "simple" > > interface around long-term given that we now have a more flexible > > platform device allocation interface - I don't particularly like > > having superfluous interfaces for folk to get confused with. > > Now that you made platform_device_alloc install default release > handler there is no need to have the _simple interface. I will > convert input devices (main users of _simple) to the new interface > and then we can get rid of it. >
I have started moving drivers from the "_simple" interface and I found that I'm missing platform_device_del that would complement platform_device_add. Would you object to having such a function, like we do for other sysfs objects? With it one can write somthing like this:
err_delete_device: platform_device_del(i8042_platform_device); err_free_device: platform_device_put(i8042_platform_device); err_unregister_driver: platform_driver_unregister(&i8042_driver);
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