Downloading firmware needs a device to hang off of, and so a platform device seemed like the simplest way to do this. Now that we have a faux device interface, use that instead as this "microcode device" is not anything resembling a platform device at all. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: new example patch in this series arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c index b3658d11e7b6..f42e0d1b2baa 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ #define pr_fmt(fmt) "microcode: " fmt -#include <linux/platform_device.h> #include <linux/stop_machine.h> +#include <linux/device/faux.h> #include <linux/syscore_ops.h> #include <linux/miscdevice.h> #include <linux/capability.h> @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static void reload_early_microcode(unsigned int cpu) } /* fake device for request_firmware */ -static struct platform_device *microcode_pdev; +static struct faux_device *microcode_fdev; #ifdef CONFIG_MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING /* @@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ static int load_late_locked(void) if (!setup_cpus()) return -EBUSY; - switch (microcode_ops->request_microcode_fw(0, µcode_pdev->dev)) { + switch (microcode_ops->request_microcode_fw(0, µcode_fdev->dev)) { case UCODE_NEW: return load_late_stop_cpus(false); case UCODE_NEW_SAFE: @@ -828,9 +828,9 @@ static int __init microcode_init(void) if (early_data.new_rev) pr_info_once("Updated early from: 0x%08x\n", early_data.old_rev); - microcode_pdev = platform_device_register_simple("microcode", -1, NULL, 0); - if (IS_ERR(microcode_pdev)) - return PTR_ERR(microcode_pdev); + microcode_fdev = faux_device_create("microcode", NULL); + if (!microcode_fdev) + return -ENODEV; dev_root = bus_get_dev_root(&cpu_subsys); if (dev_root) { @@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ static int __init microcode_init(void) return 0; out_pdev: - platform_device_unregister(microcode_pdev); + faux_device_destroy(microcode_fdev); return error; } -- 2.48.1