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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:55:28 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add device addition/removal notifier
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:56:31 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> Index: linux-cell/include/linux/device.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-cell.orig/include/linux/device.h	2006-10-19 17:43:58.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-cell/include/linux/device.h	2006-10-19 17:44:24.000000000 +1000
> @@ -427,6 +427,22 @@ extern int (*platform_notify)(struct dev
>  
>  extern int (*platform_notify_remove)(struct device * dev);
>  
> +/**
> + * Device notifiers. Get notified of addition/removal of devices
> + * and possibly other events in the future. Replacement for the
> + * platform "fixup" functions. This is a low level hook provided
> + * for the platform to initialize private parts of struct device,
> + * like firmware related links. Add is called before the device is
> + * added to a bus (and thus the driver probed) and Remove is called
> + * afterward.
> + */

That's not kernel-doc, so please don't begin it with "/**".

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~Randy