Re: Is platform_device_register_simple() deprecated?

[Kumar Gala]

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
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