of/device: Rework to use common platform_device_alloc() for allocating devices
authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:45:13 +0000 (11:45 -0600)
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:10:10 +0000 (11:10 -0600)
commit7096d0422153ffcc2264eef652fc3a7bca3e6d3c
tree2be6139f1e26acb4d0680e50a87623bc18938147
parentbda80da469a93122121de601dd469ce1aaa6effa
of/device: Rework to use common platform_device_alloc() for allocating devices

The current code allocates and manages platform_devices created from
the device tree manually.  It also uses an unsafe shortcut for
allocating the platform_device and the resource table at the same
time. (which I added in the last rework; sorry).

This patch refactors the code to use platform_device_alloc() for
allocating new devices.  This reduces the amount of custom code
implemented by of_platform, eliminates the unsafe alloc trick, and has
the side benefit of letting the platform_bus code manage freeing the
device data and resources when the device is freed.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c
drivers/base/platform.c
drivers/of/device.c
drivers/of/platform.c
include/linux/of_device.h