linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] olpc_battery: convert to platform device

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Date:	Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:39:26 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
CC:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org>, cbou@...l.ru,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com, dilinger@...ued.net, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] olpc_battery: convert to platform device

On 02/16/2011 02:44 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:28 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
>>
>> +static int __init add_common_platform_devices(void)
>> +{
>> +       struct platform_device *pdev;
>> +
>> +       pdev = platform_device_register_simple("olpc-battery", -1, NULL, 0);
>> +       if (IS_ERR(pdev))
>> +               return PTR_ERR(pdev);
>> +
>> +       return 0;
>> +}
>> + 
> 
> Still kind of sucks that you have to do this, and can't bind to
> something in the device-tree.
> 

Any reason you can't include a device tree in the OLPC kernel?

	-hpa

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