From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753459Ab0L2QZQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:25:16 -0500 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:58489 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753357Ab0L2QZO (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:25:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:25:12 +0100 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton Subject: (arm-)global platform device registration functions Message-ID: <20101229162512.GI14221@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, some time ago I started to dynamically allocate platform_devices for arm/plat-mxc. For that purpose I added many functions, see arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach/devices-common.h [1]. Now arm/arch-mxs want to do the same, so I wonder if it would be sensible to do something like this more globally (either for arm or better kernel global). Thoughts? Best regards Uwe [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach/devices-common.h;hb=HEAD -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |