| To: | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] IDE: Fix platform device registration in Swarm IDE driver |
| From: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> |
| Date: | Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:51:39 +0100 |
| Cc: | Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>, bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 02:52:07PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Platform device in the driver itself? Interesting... :-) > > Better than nothing for platforms which did not have platform > initialisation at all. Some driver subsystems do not support > non-driver-model devices at all or anymore. Historically registration of the device file in the driver itself wasn't uncommon before it turned out to be not such a great idea. I hope this was the last of the affected MIPS-specific drivers. Ralf |
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