platform: add new device registration helper

Add a helper that registers simple platform_device w/o resources but with
parent and device data.

This is usefull to cleanup platform code from code that registers such
simple devices as leds-gpio, generic-bl, etc.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Dmitry Baryshkov
2008-09-22 14:41:40 -07:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 45c076c5d7
commit d8bf254089
2 changed files with 49 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ extern int platform_add_devices(struct platform_device **, int);
extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(const char *, int id,
struct resource *, unsigned int);
extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_data(struct device *,
const char *, int, const void *, size_t);
extern struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc(const char *name, int id);
extern int platform_device_add_resources(struct platform_device *pdev, struct resource *res, unsigned int num);