文章讲述了平台驱动器如何作为抽象层，减少对每个设备编写单独驱动的需求。它适用于使用相同控制寄存器的多个设备，只需创建特定设备的接口，平台驱动会自动生成相应驱动。相比之下，针对单一设备的设备驱动API有所不同，更多细节可参考Linux文档。
Why we have platform driver?
It is an abstract of similar device drivers. So after we have the platform driver, we do not need to write individual driver for each device.
Say SPI driver. We have a bunch of devices that use the same kind of registers, same similar controls. After we have the plaftform driver, we only need to create such individual device, the plaftform driver will create the device driver for us.
While device driver is only for such one device. There is no other similar device, so we write that driver for that device, that's it.
The API for this kind of driver is a little different.
More info can refer to the Linux doc webpage.
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