2 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index e621dade7eaa..9e60f7c739c6 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -391,6 +391,53 @@ error:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_register_simple);
 
+/**
+ * platform_device_register_data
+ * @parent: parent device for the device we're adding
+ * @name: base name of the device we're adding
+ * @id: instance id
+ * @data: platform specific data for this platform device
+ * @size: size of platform specific data
+ *
+ * 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 without waiting for the last reference to the device to be
+ * dropped.
+ */
+struct platform_device *platform_device_register_data(
+                struct device *parent,
+                const char *name, int id,
+                const void *data, size_t size)
+{
+        struct platform_device *pdev;
+        int retval;
+
+        pdev = platform_device_alloc(name, id);
+        if (!pdev) {
+                retval = -ENOMEM;
+                goto error;
+        }
+
+        pdev->dev.parent = parent;
+
+        if (size) {
+                retval = platform_device_add_data(pdev, data, size);
+                if (retval)
+                        goto error;
+        }
+
+        retval = platform_device_add(pdev);
+        if (retval)
+                goto error;
+
+        return pdev;
+
+error:
+        platform_device_put(pdev);
+        return ERR_PTR(retval);
+}
+
 static int platform_drv_probe(struct device *_dev)
 {
         struct platform_driver *drv = to_platform_driver(_dev->driver);
diff --git a/include/linux/platform_device.h b/include/linux/platform_device.h
index 95ac21ab3a09..4b8cc6a32479 100644
--- a/include/linux/platform_device.h
+++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h
@@ -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);