Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:04:27 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Minor change to platform_device_register_simple prototype |
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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:05:39AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov 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.
That sounds like a very good idea.
thanks,
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