linux.git/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt, branch master

docs: driver-model: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst

2019-06-21T13:47:26+00:00

Convert the various documents at the driver-model, preparing
them to be part of the driver-api book.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fix tables markups;
  - add some lists markups;
  - mark literal blocks;
  - adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher  # ice
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver-core: platform: fix typo in documentation for multi-driver helper

2016-02-10T01:39:33+00:00

The function name in the documentation lacked an 's'. Add it.

Fixes: dbe2256ddd8e ("driver-core: platform: Provide helpers for multi-driver modules")
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König 
Acked-by: Thierry Reding 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver-core: platform: Provide helpers for multi-driver modules

2015-10-05T04:02:40+00:00

Some modules register several sub-drivers. Provide a helper that makes
it easy to register and unregister a list of sub-drivers, as well as
unwind properly on error.

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo

2013-12-19T15:36:18+00:00

The sentence is not proper English, so the use of "general" is now replaced with
"in general". "generally" was also considered, but "in general" is probably the
correct in this case.

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Papp 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Fix spelling of 'platform' in comments and doc

2010-02-05T11:22:34+00:00

Replace platfrom -> platform.

This is a frequent spelling bug.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Driver Core: early platform driver

2009-04-16T23:17:10+00:00

V3 of the early platform driver implementation.

Platform drivers are great for embedded platforms because we can separate
driver configuration from the actual driver.  So base addresses,
interrupts and other configuration can be kept with the processor or board
code, and the platform driver can be reused by many different platforms.

For early devices we have nothing today.  For instance, to configure early
timers and early serial ports we cannot use platform devices.  This
because the setup order during boot.  Timers are needed before the
platform driver core code is available.  The same goes for early printk
support.  Early in this case means before initcalls.

These early drivers today have their configuration either hard coded or
they receive it using some special configuration method.  This is working
quite well, but if we want to support both regular kernel modules and
early devices then we need to have two ways of configuring the same
driver.  A single way would be better.

The early platform driver patch is basically a set of functions that allow
drivers to register themselves and architecture code to locate them and
probe.  Registration happens through early_param().  The time for the
probe is decided by the architecture code.

See Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt for more details.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Cc: David Brownell 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: Update some prototypes in platform.txt

2008-02-02T23:14:49+00:00

Just make these match the actual code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt

2007-06-08T19:41:07+00:00

Make note of the legacy "probe-the-hardware" drivers, and some APIs that
are mostly unused except by such drivers.  We probably can't escape having
legacy drivers for a while (e.g.  old ISA drivers), but we can at least
discourage this style code for new drivers, and unless it's unavoidable.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell 
Cc: Andres Salomon 
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov 
Cc: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc doc and kconfig typos

2007-05-09T06:58:15+00:00

Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Fix occurrences of "the the "

2007-05-09T06:57:56+00:00

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk