Re: [PATCH v5] portman2x4 - use new parport device model

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Thu Feb 18 2016 - 05:21:11 EST


On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:56:27 +0100,
Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>
> Modify portman driver to use the new parallel port device model.
> The advantage of using the device model is that the device gets binded
> to the hardware, we get the feature of hotplug, we can bind/unbind
> the driver at runtime.
> The changes are in the way the driver gets registered with the
> parallel port subsystem and the temporary device to probe portman card
> is removed and portman_probe() is used in the probe callback.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v5: claimed flag and one call to parport_claim() removed.
> v4: temporary device to probe is removed.
> v3: changed commit message
> v2:
> 1. pardev_cb is initialized while declaring, thus removing the use of
> memset.
> 2. used pdev->id.
> 3. v1 did not have the parport probe callback, but we will need the
> probe callback for binding as the name of the driver and the name of
> the device is different.
> 4. in v1 I missed modifying snd_portman_probe_port().

OK, I merged this one to for-next branch now. Let's cross fingers :)


thanks,

Takashi