Hi Greg, On Jan 4, 2013, at 12:40 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 12:31:10AM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >> Platform device removal uncovered a number of problems with >> the way resources are handled in the core platform code. >> >> Resources now form child/parent linkages and this requires >> proper linking of the resources. On top of that the OF core >> directly creates it's own platform devices. Simplify things >> by providing helper functions that manage the linking properly. >> >> Two functions are provided: >> >> platform_device_link_resources(), which links all the >> linkable resources (if not already linked). >> >> and platform_device_unlink_resources(), which unlinks all the >> resources. > > Who would call these functions, and why? > > And why have we never seen problems with removing platform devices > previously? > Have you tried removing devices that were created via DT and not using platform data? > thanks, > > greg k-h Regards -- Pantelis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
