The patch titled
vfb: Update platform code
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
vfb-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/vfb.c | 29 +++++++++++++----------------
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/video/vfb.c~vfb-update-platform-code drivers/video/vfb.c
--- devel/drivers/video/vfb.c~vfb-update-platform-code 2006-04-29 00:04:37.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/video/vfb.c 2006-04-29 00:04:37.000000000 -0700
@@ -398,12 +398,6 @@ static int __init vfb_setup(char *option
* Initialisation
*/
-static void vfb_platform_release(struct device *device)
-{
- // This is called when the reference count goes to zero.
- dev_err(device, "This driver is broken, please bug the authors so they will fix it.\n");
-}
-
static int __init vfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
{
struct fb_info *info;
@@ -482,13 +476,7 @@ static struct platform_driver vfb_driver
},
};
-static struct platform_device vfb_device = {
- .name = "vfb",
- .id = 0,
- .dev = {
- .release = vfb_platform_release,
- }
-};
+static struct platform_device *vfb_device;
static int __init vfb_init(void)
{
@@ -508,10 +496,19 @@ static int __init vfb_init(void)
ret = platform_driver_register(&vfb_driver);
if (!ret) {
- ret = platform_device_register(&vfb_device);
- if (ret)
+ vfb_device = platform_device_alloc("vfb", 0);
+
+ if (vfb_device)
+ ret = platform_device_add(vfb_device);
+ else
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+
+ if (ret) {
+ platform_device_put(vfb_device);
platform_driver_unregister(&vfb_driver);
+ }
}
+
return ret;
}
@@ -520,7 +517,7 @@ module_init(vfb_init);
#ifdef MODULE
static void __exit vfb_exit(void)
{
- platform_device_unregister(&vfb_device);
+ platform_device_unregister(vfb_device);
platform_driver_unregister(&vfb_driver);
}
_
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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