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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] drivercore: Generalize module_platform_driver
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:13:35AM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> This patch generalizes the module_platform_driver macro and introduces a new
> module_driver macro. The module_driver macro takes a driver name, a register
> and a unregister function for this driver type. Using these it construct the
> module init and exit sections which register and unregister the driver. Since
> such init/exit sections are commonly found in drivers this macro can be used
> to eliminate a lot of boilerplate code.
> 
> The macro is not intended to be used by driver modules directly, instead it
> should be used to generate bus specific macros for registering drivers like
> the module_platform_driver macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  include/linux/init.h            |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++

I've moved this from init.h (which is trying to get away from
module-specific stuff) to device.h, which is where this really should
be.

thanks,

greg k-h