Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5-git 2/2] update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt

[Russell King]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:16:03PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 3/31/07, David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >+A better solution is usually:
> >+
> >+       struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(
> >+                       char *name, unsigned id,
> >+                       struct resource *res, unsigned nres);
> >+
> >+You can use platform_device_register_simple() as a one-step call to 
> >allocate
> >+and register a device.
> 
> DIdn't Russell want to convert eberything to platform_device_alloc and
> then nuke platfrom_device_register_simple()?

That was my long term plan - since I don't like APIs which "grow" lots
of different and redundant interfaces.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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