Re: [PATCH] w1-gpio: Add GPIO w1 bus master driver

From: Ville Syrjälä
Date: Thu Jan 03 2008 - 08:48:58 EST


On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 11:24:54PM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:34:01 +0200
> Ville Syrjala <syrjala@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > +static struct platform_device foo_w1_device = {
> > + .name = "w1-gpio",
> > + .id = -1,
>
> Assigning -1 to a u32 member isn't a very nice example. What does it
> mean anyway?

id is 'int'. The bus_name won't include the id when -1 is used.

> > +static int __init w1_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> This must be __devinit, or if you want to save a bit of memory...
>
> > + .probe = w1_gpio_probe,
>
> ...remove this line, and...
>
> > +static int __init w1_gpio_init(void)
> > +{
> > + return platform_driver_register(&w1_gpio_driver);
>
> ...call platform_driver_probe(&w1_gpio_driver, w1_gpio_probe) here.

I was wondering what platform_driver_probe() was for but never bothered
to read the code. I'll change the code to use it.

I already sent an updated patch but forgot to send this reply.

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