The tlclk driver does not need to create a platform device, it only did so because it was simple to do that in order to get a place in sysfs to hang some device-specific attributes. Change it over to use the faux device instead as this is NOT a real platform device, and it makes the code even smaller than before. Cc: Mark Gross <markgross@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v3: new patch in the series. For an example of the api working, does not have to be merged at this time, but I can take it if the maintainers give an ack. drivers/char/tlclk.c | 32 ++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/tlclk.c b/drivers/char/tlclk.c index 377bebf6c925..97f64de61bdd 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tlclk.c +++ b/drivers/char/tlclk.c @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ #include <linux/sysfs.h> #include <linux/device.h> #include <linux/miscdevice.h> -#include <linux/platform_device.h> +#include <linux/device/faux.h> #include <asm/io.h> /* inb/outb */ #include <linux/uaccess.h> @@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ static ssize_t store_reset (struct device *d, static DEVICE_ATTR(reset, (S_IWUSR|S_IWGRP), NULL, store_reset); -static struct attribute *tlclk_sysfs_entries[] = { +static struct attribute *tlclk_attrs[] = { &dev_attr_current_ref.attr, &dev_attr_telclock_version.attr, &dev_attr_alarms.attr, @@ -766,13 +766,9 @@ static struct attribute *tlclk_sysfs_entries[] = { &dev_attr_reset.attr, NULL }; +ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(tlclk); -static const struct attribute_group tlclk_attribute_group = { - .name = NULL, /* put in device directory */ - .attrs = tlclk_sysfs_entries, -}; - -static struct platform_device *tlclk_device; +static struct faux_device *tlclk_device; static int __init tlclk_init(void) { @@ -817,24 +813,13 @@ static int __init tlclk_init(void) goto out3; } - tlclk_device = platform_device_register_simple("telco_clock", - -1, NULL, 0); - if (IS_ERR(tlclk_device)) { - printk(KERN_ERR "tlclk: platform_device_register failed.\n"); - ret = PTR_ERR(tlclk_device); + tlclk_device = faux_device_create_with_groups("telco_clock", NULL, tlclk_groups); + if (!tlclk_device) { + ret = -ENODEV; goto out4; } - ret = sysfs_create_group(&tlclk_device->dev.kobj, - &tlclk_attribute_group); - if (ret) { - printk(KERN_ERR "tlclk: failed to create sysfs device attributes.\n"); - goto out5; - } - return 0; -out5: - platform_device_unregister(tlclk_device); out4: misc_deregister(&tlclk_miscdev); out3: @@ -848,8 +833,7 @@ static int __init tlclk_init(void) static void __exit tlclk_cleanup(void) { - sysfs_remove_group(&tlclk_device->dev.kobj, &tlclk_attribute_group); - platform_device_unregister(tlclk_device); + faux_device_destroy(tlclk_device); misc_deregister(&tlclk_miscdev); unregister_chrdev(tlclk_major, "telco_clock"); -- 2.48.1