Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:37:40 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: (arm-)global platform device registration functions |
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:25:12 +0100 Uwe Kleine-K__nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hello, > > some time ago I started to dynamically allocate platform_devices for > arm/plat-mxc. For that purpose I added many functions, see > arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach/devices-common.h [1]. Now arm/arch-mxs > want to do the same, so I wonder if it would be sensible to do something > like this more globally (either for arm or better kernel global). >
Sounds sensible to me, although I don't really understand what you've done - didn't platform_device_alloc() already "dynamically allocate platform_devices"?
If you were to implement this common infrastructure, there may be already-existing code which could use it. How would we locate that?
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