* This function creates a simple platform device that requires minimal
* resource and memory management. Canned release function freeing
* memory allocated for the device allows drivers using such devices
- * to be unloaded iwithout waiting for the last reference to the device
+ * to be unloaded without waiting for the last reference to the device
* to be dropped.
+ *
+ * This interface is primarily intended for use with legacy drivers
+ * which probe hardware directly. Because such drivers create sysfs
+ * device nodes themselves, rather than letting system infrastructure
+ * handle such device enumeration tasks, they don't fully conform to
+ * the Linux driver model. In particular, when such drivers are built
+ * as modules, they can't be "hotplugged".
*/
struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(char *name, unsigned int id,
struct resource *res, unsigned int num)
modalias_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *a, char *buf)
{
struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
- int len = snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", pdev->name);
+ int len = snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "platform:%s\n", pdev->name);
return (len >= PAGE_SIZE) ? (PAGE_SIZE - 1) : len;
}
struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
envp[0] = buffer;
- snprintf(buffer, buffer_size, "MODALIAS=%s", pdev->name);
+ snprintf(buffer, buffer_size, "MODALIAS=platform:%s", pdev->name);
return 0;
}