Re: Is platform_device_register_simple() deprecated?

[Kumar Gala]

On Apr 12, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:09:48PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Sure, I'll take a patch for that.  But really, it's just easier to fix
> up all callers and delete the function.  It isn't anything that
> feature-removal-schedule.txt should care about, as it's just the  
> normal
> API changes we do all the time.


Well, it is an exported interface so I figured that fit in the same  
category as removing the export of insert_resource.

But, I'm not too concerned one way or the other about it.

- k
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