Re: [PATCH] IDE: Fix platform device registration in Swarm IDE driver

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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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