linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mmc_spi: export probe and remove functions

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Date:	Mon, 26 May 2008 16:25:33 +0400
From:	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
To:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@...eus.cx>
Cc:	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Gary Jennejohn <garyj@...x.de>,
	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mmc_spi: export probe and remove functions

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 02:18:36PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 22:28:34 +0400
> Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com> wrote:
> 
> > ...so we'll able to write bindings for the OpenFirmware without
> > messing with #ifdefs in the driver itself.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
> 
> This looks extremely wrong. Encapsulating probe functions isn't exactly
> in line with the device model and bound to confuse people.
> 
> Your patches doesn't give a complete picture of the OF side of things,
> but can't you solve this by having an init callback somewhere?

Easily, I think this is good (better) idea. Will do.

Thanks,

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