Re: [PATCH v3] olpc_battery: convert to platform device

[Daniel Drake]

On 16 February 2011 22:44, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 22:28 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
>>
>> +static int __init add_common_platform_devices(void)
>> +{
>> +       struct platform_device *pdev;
>> +
>> +       pdev = platform_device_register_simple("olpc-battery", -1, NULL, 0);
>> +       if (IS_ERR(pdev))
>> +               return PTR_ERR(pdev);
>> +
>> +       return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>
> Still kind of sucks that you have to do this, and can't bind to
> something in the device-tree.

OK, feel free to put this patch on hold for now. I started looking at
the device tree approach today. It looks doable but first we have to
fix a DT bug/inconsistency that is preventing us from correctly
binding to the tree's devices.

Daniel
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