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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: Is platform_device_register_simple() deprecated?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:09:48 -0500
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On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:50:37PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
>> Hi Greg, Russel, Dmitry.
>>
>> ALSA is using platform_device_register_simple(). Jean Delvare  
>> pointed:
>>
>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113398060508534&w=2
>>
>> out, where _simple looks to be slated for removal. Is this indeed the
>> case? ALSA isn't using the resources -- doing a manual alloc/add  
>> would
>> not be a problem...
>
> Great, care to convert ALSA to use the proper api so we can remove
> platform_device_register_simple()?

Can we mark this deprecated and add it to feature-removal-schedule.txt.

I'm using it about half a dozen times in arch/powerpc and wasn't sure  
if it was planned on being removed.

- kumar