This is basically the same as module_misc_device but without the presence of an exit/remove function. Similar in nature to the commit f309d4443130bf814e991f836e919dca22df37ae ("platform_device: better support builtin boilerplate avoidance").
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com> --- [I've got several users of this in my local queue; but I'll stagger those and this by a merge window to avoid dependency issues.] include/linux/miscdevice.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h index 722698a43d79..a426cb55dc43 100644 --- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h @@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ extern int misc_register(struct miscdevice *misc); extern void misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc); /* + * Helper macro for drivers that don't do anything special in the initcall. + * This helps in eleminating of boilerplate code. + */ +#define builtin_misc_device(__misc_device) \ + builtin_driver(__misc_device, misc_register) + +/* * Helper macro for drivers that don't do anything special in module init / exit * call. This helps in eleminating of boilerplate code. */ -- 2.8.4