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? thanks, greg k-h -- 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/
