linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mic: avoid statically declaring a 'struct device'.

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a0hraaJJ8dfPZMXA-NBVuff9HVxsHhpj0n_apFZyyAvbw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:43:38 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>,
        Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com>,
        Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mic: avoid statically declaring a 'struct device'.

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 3:07 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

> A slightly better way here is to create the platform device from
> a platform_device_info. This avoids the warning and some other problems,
> but is still not ideal because the device creation should really be
> separated from the driver.
>
> Fixes: dd8d8d44df64 ("misc: mic: MIC card driver specific changes to enable SCIF")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Please ignore this version, it is completely broken, I'll send a
replacement after
more build testing.

       Arnd