The patch titled
fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers update
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers-update.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers.patch
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Subject: fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers update
From: David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx>
This updates only comments, based on feedback.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/platform.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_mainstone.c | 1 -
drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_sharpsl.c | 1 -
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/base/platform.c~fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers-update drivers/base/platform.c
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c~fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers-update
+++ a/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -161,10 +161,10 @@ static void platform_device_release(stru
* Create a platform device object which can have other objects attached
* to it, and which will have attached objects freed when it is released.
*
- * This device will be marked as not supporting hotpluggable drivers; in
- * the unusual case that the device isn't being dynamically allocated as
- * of a legacy "probe the hardware" driver, infrastructure code should
- * reverse this marking.
+ * This device will be marked as not supporting hotpluggable drivers; no
+ * device add/remove uevents will be generated. In the unusual case that
+ * the device isn't being dynamically allocated as a legacy "probe the
+ * hardware" driver, infrastructure code should reverse this marking.
*/
struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc(const char *name, unsigned int id)
{
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ struct platform_device *platform_device_
/* prevent hotplug "modprobe $(MODALIAS)" from causing trouble in
* legacy probe-the-hardware drivers, which don't properly split
- * out enumeration logic from drivers.
+ * out device enumeration logic from drivers.
*/
pa->pdev.dev.uevent_suppress = 1;
}
@@ -362,11 +362,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_unregi
* to be dropped.
*
* This interface is primarily intended for use with legacy drivers
- * which probe hardware directly. Because such drivers create device
- * nodes themselves, rather than letting system infrastructure handle
- * such device enumeration tasks, they don't fully conform to the Linux
- * driver model. In particular, when such drivers are built as modules,
- * they can't be "hotplugged".
+ * which probe hardware directly. Because such drivers create sysfs
+ * device nodes themselves, rather than letting system infrastructure
+ * handle such device enumeration tasks, they don't fully conform to
+ * the Linux driver model. In particular, when such drivers are built
+ * as modules, they can't be "hotplugged".
*/
struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(char *name, unsigned int id,
struct resource *res, unsigned int num)
diff -puN drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_mainstone.c~fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers-update drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_mainstone.c
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_mainstone.c~fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers-update
+++ a/drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_mainstone.c
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ static int __init mst_pcmcia_init(void)
if (!mst_pcmcia_device)
return -ENOMEM;
- /* REVISIT just statically allocate the device */
mst_pcmcia_device->dev.uevent_suppress = 0;
mst_pcmcia_device->dev.platform_data = &mst_pcmcia_ops;
diff -puN drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_sharpsl.c~fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers-update drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_sharpsl.c
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_sharpsl.c~fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers-update
+++ a/drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_sharpsl.c
@@ -261,7 +261,6 @@ static int __init sharpsl_pcmcia_init(vo
if (!sharpsl_pcmcia_device)
return -ENOMEM;
- /* REVISIT just statically allocate the device */
sharpsl_pcmcia_device->dev.uevent_suppress = 0;
sharpsl_pcmcia_device->dev.platform_data = &sharpsl_pcmcia_ops;
sharpsl_pcmcia_device->dev.parent = platform_scoop_config->devs[0].dev;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
doc-gpiotxt-describes-open-drain-emulation.patch
fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers.patch
fix-hotplug-for-legacy-platform-drivers-update.patch
make-proc-acpi-wakeup-more-useful.patch
update-documentation-driver-model-platformtxt.patch
at91_cf-minor-fix.patch
scsi-newstyle-hotplug-coldplug-support.patch
usb-gadget-rndis-fix-struct-rndis_packet_msg_type.patch
blackfin-on-chip-rtc-controller-driver.patch
blackfin-blackfin-on-chip-spi-controller-driver.patch
rework-pm_ops-pm_disk_mode-kill-misuse.patch
power-management-remove-firmware-disk-mode.patch
power-management-implement-pm_opsvalid-for-everybody.patch
documentation-ask-driver-writers-to-provide-pm-support.patch
init-dma-masks-in-pnp_dev.patch
rtc-add-rtc-class-driver-for-the-maxim-max6900.patch
char-cs5535_gpio-add-module_device_table.patch
parport-dev-driver-model-support.patch
parport-dev-driver-model-support-powerpc-fix.patch
layered-parport-code-uses-parport-dev.patch
pnpacpi-sets-pnpdev-devarchdata.patch
pnpacpi-sets-pnpdev-devarchdata-fix.patch
minor-spi_butterfly-cleanup.patch
rtc-remove-sys-class-rtc-dev.patch
rtc-rtc-interfaces-dont-use-class_device.patch
rtc-simplified-rtc-sysfs-attribute-handling.patch
rtc-simplified-proc-driver-rtc-handling.patch
rtc-remove-rest-of-class_device.patch
rtc-suspend-resume-restores-system-clock.patch
rtc-simplified-rtc-sysfs-attribute-handling-tidy.patch
rtc-update-to-class-device-removal-patches.patch
rtc-kconfig-cleanup.patch
rtc-cmos-wakeup-interface.patch
acpi-wakeup-hooks-for-rtc-cmos.patch
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