The patch titled
vesafb: Update platform code
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
vesafb-update-platform-code.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx>
Update platform code to dynamically allocate the platform device
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/vesafb.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/video/vesafb.c~vesafb-update-platform-code drivers/video/vesafb.c
--- devel/drivers/video/vesafb.c~vesafb-update-platform-code 2006-04-29 00:04:35.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/video/vesafb.c 2006-04-29 00:04:35.000000000 -0700
@@ -460,9 +460,7 @@ static struct platform_driver vesafb_dri
},
};
-static struct platform_device vesafb_device = {
- .name = "vesafb",
-};
+static struct platform_device *vesafb_device;
static int __init vesafb_init(void)
{
@@ -475,10 +473,19 @@ static int __init vesafb_init(void)
ret = platform_driver_register(&vesafb_driver);
if (!ret) {
- ret = platform_device_register(&vesafb_device);
- if (ret)
+ vesafb_device = platform_device_alloc("vesafb", 0);
+
+ if (vesafb_device)
+ ret = platform_device_add(vesafb_device);
+ else
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+
+ if (ret) {
+ platform_device_put(vesafb_device);
platform_driver_unregister(&vesafb_driver);
+ }
}
+
return ret;
}
module_init(vesafb_init);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from adaplas@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
savagefb-allocate-space-for-current-and-saved-register.patch
savagefb-add-state-save-and_restore-hooks.patch
savagefb-add-state-save-and_restore-hooks-fix.patch
fbdev-more-accurate-sync-range-extrapolation.patch
nvidiafb-revise-pci_device_id-table.patch
atyfb-fix-hardware-cursor-handling.patch
atyfb-remove-unneeded-calls-to-wait_for_idle.patch
atyfb-set-correct-acceleration-flags.patch
epson1355fb-update-platform-code.patch
vesafb-update-platform-code.patch
vfb-update-platform-code.patch
vga16fb-update-platform-code.patch
fbdev-static-pseudocolor-with-depth-less-than-4-does.patch
savagefb-whitespace-cleanup.patch
fbdev-firmware-edid-fixes.patch
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