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Message-ID: <1409574460.4343.7.camel@hornet>
Date:	Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:27:40 +0100
From:	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>
To:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	"paul@...an.com" <paul@...an.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>,
	"arm@...nel.org" <arm@...nel.org>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] char: tile-srom: Remove reference to platform_bus

On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 19:43 +0100, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> >> Thank you for volunteering to write a bit of code; if that's the best
> >> way to clarify this for us, fantastic, or else pointing us at existing
> >> good practices or documentation would be great too.
> > [...]
> > @@ -350,7 +351,7 @@ static int srom_setup_minor(struct srom_dev *srom, int index)
> >  		       SROM_PAGE_SIZE_OFF, sizeof(srom->page_size)) < 0)
> >  		return -EIO;
> >
> > -	dev = device_create(srom_class, &platform_bus,
> > +	dev = device_create(srom_class, srom_parent,
> >  			    MKDEV(srom_major, index), srom, "%d", index);
> >  	return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(dev);
> >  }
> 
> The second argument should be &srom_parent.dev though, I think.  Right?

Yes, sure - as I said, I haven't really tested this code, sorry!


> If the
> consensus is that this is the way to go, I can certainly take this change
> into the Tile tree.

That would be cool, and left us only with the scsi/DMA as the last user
of platform_bus. But this is a completely different story ;-)

Paweł

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