[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>
diff --git a/drivers/video/vfb.c b/drivers/video/vfb.c
index 77eed1f..d073ffb 100644
--- a/drivers/video/vfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/vfb.c
@@ -398,12 +398,6 @@
* 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_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 @@
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 @@
#ifdef MODULE
static void __exit vfb_exit(void)
{
- platform_device_unregister(&vfb_device);
+ platform_device_unregister(vfb_device);
platform_driver_unregister(&vfb_driver);
}