linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] cpufreq: dt: Add generic platform-device creation support

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:46:22 -0500
From:	Matthew McClintock <mmcclint@...eaurora.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>, arnd.bergmann@...aro.org,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	kgene.kim@...sung.com, xf@...k-chips.com, heiko@...ech.de,
	k.kozlowski@...sung.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] cpufreq: dt: Add generic platform-device creation support

On Mar 30, 2016, at 3:15 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org> wrote:
> 
> Multiple platforms are using the generic cpufreq-dt driver now, and all
> of them are required to create a platform device with name "cpufreq-dt",
> in order to get the cpufreq-dt probed.
> 
> Many of them do it from platform code, others have special drivers just
> to do that.
> 
> It would be more sensible to do this at a generic place, where all such
> platform can mark their entries.
> 
> This patch adds a separate file to get this device created. Currently
> the compat list of platforms that we support is empty, and will be
> filled in as and when we move platforms to use it.
> 
> It always compiles as part of the kernel and so doesn't need a
> module-exit operation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>

Test on ipq4019.

Tested-by: Matthew McClintock <mmcclint@...eaurora.org>

-M