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authorAntonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>2006-06-26 00:26:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-26 09:58:29 -0700
commit20cecf6a6ade62e3a721eb31540f22126df7462b (patch)
tree064382401cbee14ca35b48ebdf34047fab7f2824 /drivers/video/vfb.c
parent[PATCH] vesafb: Update platform code (diff)
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[PATCH] vfb: Update platform code
Update platform code to dynamically allocate the platform device Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/vfb.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/vfb.c29
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/vfb.c b/drivers/video/vfb.c
index 77eed1fd9943..d073ffb6e1f9 100644
--- a/drivers/video/vfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/vfb.c
@@ -398,12 +398,6 @@ static int __init vfb_setup(char *options)
* Initialisation
*/
-static void vfb_platform_release(struct device *device)
-{
- // This is called when the reference count goes to zero.
- dev_err(device, "This driver is broken, please bug the authors so they will fix it.\n");
-}
-
static int __init vfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
{
struct fb_info *info;
@@ -482,13 +476,7 @@ static struct platform_driver vfb_driver = {
},
};
-static struct platform_device vfb_device = {
- .name = "vfb",
- .id = 0,
- .dev = {
- .release = vfb_platform_release,
- }
-};
+static struct platform_device *vfb_device;
static int __init vfb_init(void)
{
@@ -508,10 +496,19 @@ static int __init vfb_init(void)
ret = platform_driver_register(&vfb_driver);
if (!ret) {
- ret = platform_device_register(&vfb_device);
- if (ret)
+ vfb_device = platform_device_alloc("vfb", 0);
+
+ if (vfb_device)
+ ret = platform_device_add(vfb_device);
+ else
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+
+ if (ret) {
+ platform_device_put(vfb_device);
platform_driver_unregister(&vfb_driver);
+ }
}
+
return ret;
}
@@ -520,7 +517,7 @@ module_init(vfb_init);
#ifdef MODULE
static void __exit vfb_exit(void)
{
- platform_device_unregister(&vfb_device);
+ platform_device_unregister(vfb_device);
platform_driver_unregister(&vfb_driver);
}