Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:43:15 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 2/5] usb:cdns3: Add pci to platform driver wrapper |
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:35:32AM +0000, Pawel Laszczak wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 06:54:47AM +0200, Pawel Laszczak wrote: > >> Patch adds PCI specific glue driver that creates and registers in-system > >> cdns-usbssp platform device. > > > >Ick, no. > > > >Platform devices are ONLY to be used for when you have a real platform > >device. If your device is a PCI device, use that. Don't try to be cute > >and make a platform device when you don't have one please. > > > >> Thanks to that we will be able to use > >> the cdns-usbssp platform driver for USBSS-DEV controller > >> build on PCI board. > > > >No, fix up that driver to not care about it being a platform device, > >make it just accept any type of 'struct device'. > > > Ok, I will remove it form this driver but probably in a few months I will have to add > such support.
For a real platform device, that's fine, but that is not what you are doing here.
thanks,
greg k-h
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