Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] cpufreq: dt: Add generic platform-device creation support

From: Matthew McClintock
Date: Wed Apr 13 2016 - 15:46:39 EST


On Mar 30, 2016, at 3:15 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Multiple platforms are using the generic cpufreq-dt driver now, and all
> of them are required to create a platform device with name "cpufreq-dt",
> in order to get the cpufreq-dt probed.
>
> Many of them do it from platform code, others have special drivers just
> to do that.
>
> It would be more sensible to do this at a generic place, where all such
> platform can mark their entries.
>
> This patch adds a separate file to get this device created. Currently
> the compat list of platforms that we support is empty, and will be
> filled in as and when we move platforms to use it.
>
> It always compiles as part of the kernel and so doesn't need a
> module-exit operation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Test on ipq4019.

Tested-by: Matthew McClintock <mmcclint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-M