Messages in this thread | | | From | Kumar Gala <> | Subject | Re: Is platform_device_register_simple() deprecated? | Date | Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:32:33 -0500 |
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On Apr 12, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:09:48PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: >> >> On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:50:37PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: >>>> Hi Greg, Russel, Dmitry. >>>> >>>> ALSA is using platform_device_register_simple(). Jean Delvare >>>> pointed: >>>> >>>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113398060508534&w=2 >>>> >>>> out, where _simple looks to be slated for removal. Is this >>>> indeed the >>>> case? ALSA isn't using the resources -- doing a manual alloc/add >>>> would >>>> not be a problem... >>> >>> Great, care to convert ALSA to use the proper api so we can remove >>> platform_device_register_simple()? >> >> Can we mark this deprecated and add it to feature-removal- >> schedule.txt. > > Sure, I'll take a patch for that. But really, it's just easier to fix > up all callers and delete the function. It isn't anything that > feature-removal-schedule.txt should care about, as it's just the > normal > API changes we do all the time.
Well, it is an exported interface so I figured that fit in the same category as removing the export of insert_resource.
But, I'm not too concerned one way or the other about it.
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