On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Kevin Hilman wrote:

> From: Kevin Hilman <[email protected]>
> 
> This reverts commit 0007122ad85cc36b1c18c0b59344093ca210d206.
> 
> The dereference method of checking for a valid omap_device when
> wrapping a platform_device is rather unsafe and dangerous.
> 
> Instead, a better way of checking for a valid omap-device is
> to use a common parent device for all omap_devices, then a check
> can simply be made using the device parent.  The only user of this
> API was the initial version of the runtime PM core for OMAP.  This
> has now been switched to check device parent, so there are no more
> users of this API.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <[email protected]>

Agreed, this is a much better approach.

Acked-by: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]>


- Paul
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