Re: [PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.6

[Greg KH]

ChangeSet 1.1587.5.18, 2004/05/02 20:30:19-07:00, kenn@xxxxxxxx

[PATCH] Re: Platform device matching

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:27:33AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> So, this comment needs updating:
>
>  *      So, extract the <name> from the device, and compare it against
>  *      the name of the driver. Return whether they match or not.

Want a patch?


 drivers/base/platform.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff -Nru a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c	Fri May 14 15:58:28 2004
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c	Fri May 14 15:58:28 2004
@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@
  *	type of device, like "pci" or "floppy", and <instance> is the 
  *	enumerated instance of the device, like '0' or '42'.
  *	Driver IDs are simply "<name>". 
- *	So, extract the <name> from the device, and compare it against 
- *	the name of the driver. Return whether they match or not.
+ *	So, extract the <name> from the platform_device structure, 
+ *	and compare it against the name of the driver. Return whether 
+ *	they match or not.
  */
 
 static int platform_match(struct device * dev, struct device_driver * drv)

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