From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753828AbYIVRy6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:54:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751796AbYIVRyv (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:54:51 -0400 Received: from phoenix.slamd64.com ([217.10.145.2]:39994 "EHLO phoenix.slamd64.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751549AbYIVRyv (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:54:51 -0400 From: Carlos Corbacho To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] acer-wmi: add error checks in module_init Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:54:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Akinobu Mita , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200809211853.19889.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> <20080922155949.GA4283@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20080922155949.GA4283@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809221854.44615.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (phoenix.slamd64.com [217.10.145.2]); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:54:45 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 22 September 2008 16:59:49 Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 06:53:19PM +0100, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > > On Sunday 21 September 2008 15:29:59 Akinobu Mita wrote: > > > This patch fixes these bugs by using platform_device_register_simple() > > > > [Adding Greg KH to CC - 2nd time lucky...] > > > > Last I heard, platform_device_register_simple() was in the process of > > being deprecated and then slated for future removal. Has this changed? > > I don't recall this, but someone else might have stated it a while ago. http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2006-04/msg02070.html This was dated a while ago, but has anything changed since then? -Carlos -- E-Mail: carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D