On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 12:43:46AM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > 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?
Don't you think that answering two questions with another question as something that isn't very helpful? :) Dropped from my queue, please resend when you can provide the needed information. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
