On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:23:38AM +0200, Jonas Gorski wrote: > board_bcm963xx.c is already large enough. And the grand cure for that sort of issue is FDT - we by now have built big deserts of code just registering platform devices like this.. See John Crispin's Lantiq work or David's Cavium code for FDT examples. > +int __init bcm63xx_flash_register(void) > +{ > + u32 val; > + > + /* read base address of boot chip select (0) */ > + val = bcm_mpi_readl(MPI_CSBASE_REG(0)); > + val &= MPI_CSBASE_BASE_MASK; > + > + mtd_resources[0].start = val; > + mtd_resources[0].end = 0x1FFFFFFF; > + > + return platform_device_register(&mtd_dev); > +} > diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-bcm63xx/bcm63xx_dev_flash.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-bcm63xx/bcm63xx_dev_flash.h > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..8dcb541 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-bcm63xx/bcm63xx_dev_flash.h > @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ > +#ifndef __BCM63XX_FLASH_H > +#define __BCM63XX_FLASH_H > + > +int __init bcm63xx_flash_register(void); Don't use __init in declarations. It doesn't make any difference to the compiler but it may cause build errors if <linux/init.h> has not been included before which this file doesn't. > +#endif /* __BCM63XX_FLASH_H */ I suggest to make bcm63xx_flash_register an arch_initcall. It already is being called indirectly from an bcm63xx_flash_register() so this would allow making the function static, get rid of bcm63xx_dev_flash.h which only exists to silence checkpatch warnings and make board_register_devices a little cleaner. Ralf PS: Don't forget about FDT :-) Eventually, not necessarily now.