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platform: add new device registration helper 

Add a helper that registers simple platform_device w/o resources but with
parent and device data.

This is usefull to cleanup platform code from code that registers such
simple devices as leds-gpio, generic-bl, etc.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Dmitry Baryshkov 2008-09-22 14:41:40 -07:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 45c076c5d7
commit d8bf254089
2 changed files with 49 additions and 0 deletions
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drivers/base/platform.c
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@ -391,6 +391,53 @@ error:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_register_simple);
/**
* platform_device_register_data
* @parent: parent device for the device we're adding
* @name: base name of the device we're adding
* @id: instance id
* @data: platform specific data for this platform device
* @size: size of platform specific data
*
* This function creates a simple platform device that requires minimal
* resource and memory management. Canned release function freeing memory
* allocated for the device allows drivers using such devices to be
* unloaded without waiting for the last reference to the device to be
* dropped.
*/
struct platform_device *platform_device_register_data(
struct device *parent,
const char *name, int id,
const void *data, size_t size)
{
struct platform_device *pdev;
int retval;
pdev = platform_device_alloc(name, id);
if (!pdev) {
retval = -ENOMEM;
goto error;
}
pdev->dev.parent = parent;
if (size) {
retval = platform_device_add_data(pdev, data, size);
if (retval)
goto error;
}
retval = platform_device_add(pdev);
if (retval)
goto error;
return pdev;
error:
platform_device_put(pdev);
return ERR_PTR(retval);
}
static int platform_drv_probe(struct device *_dev)
{
struct platform_driver *drv = to_platform_driver(_dev->driver);

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include/linux/platform_device.h
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@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ extern int platform_add_devices(struct platform_device **, int);
extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(const char *, int id,
struct resource *, unsigned int);
extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_data(struct device *,
const char *, int, const void *, size_t);
extern struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc(const char *name, int id);
extern int platform_device_add_resources(struct platform_device *pdev, struct resource *res, unsigned int num);