Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932299AbVLHXR1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:17:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932602AbVLHXR1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:17:27 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:60434 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932299AbVLHXR1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:17:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 23:17:17 +0000 From: Russell King To: Jean Delvare Cc: Greg KH , Dmitry Torokhov , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor change to platform_device_register_simple prototype Message-ID: <20051208231717.GB9357@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Jean Delvare , Greg KH , Dmitry Torokhov , LKML References: <20051207180842.GG6793@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051207190352.GI6793@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051207225126.GA648@kroah.com> <20051207230615.GB742@kroah.com> <20051207232105.GO6793@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051208215815.3d001dab.khali@linux-fr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051208215815.3d001dab.khali@linux-fr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1313 Lines: 33 On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:58:15PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Russell, > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 03:06:15PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > Ok, that's fine with me. Russell, any objections? > > > > None what so ever - that's mostly what I envisioned with the patch > > with the _del method. However, I didn't have an existing user for it. > > Do you mean you have the code already? If it is so, could you please > provide a patch Dmitry and I can give a try to? No; I mean I _had_ the code, and it could probably be dug out, but subsequent patch revisions removed it. It's probably archived in a mail somewhere. > If not, I am willing to give it a try, if you provide some guidance. I > think I understand that platform_device_del would be the first half of > platform_device_unregister, but do we then want to rebuild > platform_device_unregister on top of platform_device_del so as to avoid > code duplication, or not? Yes on all counts. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/