Hi Antonio,
Thanks for the feedback. I'm just going to reply to one of your
comments and leave the rest for Nicolas...
On Tue, 08 May 2007 05:40:17 +0800
"Antonino A. Daplas" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > +static int __init atmel_lcdfb_init(void)
> > +{
> > + return platform_driver_probe(&atmel_lcdfb_driver, atmel_lcdfb_probe);
> > +}
>
> Is this intentional? Why not platform_driver_register()?
Yes, it's intentional. This way, the atmel_lcdfb_probe function can be
__init since it doesn't need to be referenced from atmel_lcdfb_driver.
Saves a bit of memory at run time.
The downside is that hot plugging won't work, but that isn't very
relevant for on-chip devices anyway.
Haavard
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