linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5-git 1/2] fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers

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Message-ID: <d120d5000704021310r777e1796rf2025d873404afeb@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:10:17 -0400
From:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	"David Brownell" <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	"Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"Linux Kernel list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andres Salomon" <dilinger@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5-git 1/2] fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers

On 3/31/07, David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> wrote:
> @@ -349,6 +360,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_unregi
>  *     memory allocated for the device allows drivers using such devices
>  *     to be unloaded iwithout waiting for the last reference to the device
>  *     to be dropped.
> + *
> + *     This interface is primarily intended for use with legacy drivers
> + *     which probe hardware directly.  Because such drivers create device
> + *     nodes themselves, rather than letting system infrastructure handle
> + *     such device enumeration tasks, they don't fully conform to the Linux
> + *     driver model.  In particular, when such drivers are built as modules,
> + *     they can't be "hotplugged".
>  */
>  struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(char *name, unsigned int id,

I find this comment misleading. Many of these drivers do not create
any devices (as in /dev/xxx) but rather create underlying hardware
abstraction objects.


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Dmitry
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