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We currently create a single platform device in init and then parse the configuration passed to us via module parameters in probe() before creating GPIO chips and registering them with the gpiolib framework. The relation between platform devices and mockup chips should be 1:1. Create a separate platform device for each mockup chip using convenient helpers (platform_device_register_resndata()). Pass a platform data structure to probe() in which the configuration (GPIO base, number of lines, chip index) extracted from the module params is stored. Make probe() create a single mockup chip for every platform device. This approach has several advantages: - we only parse the module parameters in init() and can bail out before attaching any device if the input is invalid (currently we would have to examine kernel logs), - we'll get notified by the device framework about errors in probe() for specific chips, - probe() gets simplified and only does what it's supposed to. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.