Re: [PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-ds1742 driver hotplug-aware

From: David Brownell
Date: Sun Aug 19 2007 - 22:02:56 EST


On Sunday 19 August 2007, David Brownell wrote:
> On Sunday 19 August 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > No, I object to the concept of "platform" to disable all uevents by
> > default,
>
> Which it certainly doesn't do.
>
> Since the $SUBJECT patch doesn't affect a platform driver in any case,
> all those comments are well off-topic for $SUBJECT.

Sorry, my bad -- I was looking at the wrong files.
(Kay -- apply cluebat to *my* head, on this point.)

This is indeed a platform driver. And v2 of this patch
doesn't resolve its "won't hotplug" problem. The simplest
way to resolve that would be switching to the more widely
used platform_device_register().



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