linux-kernel - Re: (arm-)global platform device registration functions

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Message-Id: <20101229123740.c39238f8.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:37:40 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: (arm-)global platform device registration functions

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:25:12 +0100
Uwe Kleine-K__nig <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> some time ago I started to dynamically allocate platform_devices for
> arm/plat-mxc.  For that purpose I added many functions, see
> arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach/devices-common.h [1].  Now arm/arch-mxs
> want to do the same, so I wonder if it would be sensible to do something
> like this more globally (either for arm or better kernel global).
> 

Sounds sensible to me, although I don't really understand what you've
done - didn't platform_device_alloc() already "dynamically allocate
platform_devices"?

If you were to implement this common infrastructure, there may be
already-existing code which could use it.  How would we locate that?

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