Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add platform_device_register_simple

[Russell King]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:55:59AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thursday 10 June 2004 05:16 am, Russell King wrote:
> > 
> > As this currently stands, you have no chance to add resources to the
> > platform device before it's made available to the driver.  It's likely
> > that any attached resources will have the same lifetime as the
> > device itself, so it makes sense to allocate them together with the
> > platform device.
> > 
> 
> Are you suggesting adding pointer to resources as a 3rd argument and
> automotically release it for the user? It probably could be done but users
> will be tempted to use static module data and bad things would happen.

Please read my second sentence again.  It implies a copy of the resources
is kept with the platform device, so both have the same lifetime.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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