On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 12:09:13PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Many drivers abuse the platform driver/bus system as it provides a > simple way to create and bind a device to a driver-specific set of > probe/release functions. Instead of doing that, and wasting all of the > memory associated with a platform device, here is a "faux" bus that > can be used instead. > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > +/** > + * faux_device_create - create and register a faux device and driver > + * @name: name of the device and driver we are adding > + * @faux_ops: struct faux_driver_ops that the new device will call back into, can be NULL > + * > + * Create a new faux device and driver, both with the same name, and > + * register them in the driver core properly. Along the same lines as Danilo's comment, this routine does not create a new driver any more. Alan Stern
