diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index cd71575..4573f5e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -375,52 +375,64 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_unregister);
 
 /**
- * platform_device_register_resndata - add a platform-level device with
+ * platform_device_register_full - add a platform-level device with
  * resources and platform-specific data
  *
- * @parent: parent device for the device we're adding
- * @name: base name of the device we're adding
- * @id: instance id
- * @res: set of resources that needs to be allocated for the device
- * @num: number of resources
- * @data: platform specific data for this platform device
- * @size: size of platform specific data
+ * @pdevinfo: data used to create device
  *
  * Returns &struct platform_device pointer on success, or ERR_PTR() on error.
  */
-struct platform_device *platform_device_register_resndata(
-		struct device *parent,
-		const char *name, int id,
-		const struct resource *res, unsigned int num,
-		const void *data, size_t size)
+struct platform_device *platform_device_register_full(
+		struct platform_device_info *pdevinfo)
 {
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 	struct platform_device *pdev;
 
-	pdev = platform_device_alloc(name, id);
+	pdev = platform_device_alloc(pdevinfo->name, pdevinfo->id);
 	if (!pdev)
-		goto err;
+		goto err_alloc;
 
-	pdev->dev.parent = parent;
+	pdev->dev.parent = pdevinfo->parent;
 
-	ret = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, res, num);
+	if (pdevinfo->dma_mask) {
+		/*
+		 * This memory isn't freed when the device is put,
+		 * I don't have a nice idea for that though.  Conceptually
+		 * dma_mask in struct device should not be a pointer.
+		 * See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/9081
+		 */
+		pdev->dev.dma_mask =
+			kmalloc(sizeof(*pdev->dev.dma_mask), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!pdev->dev.dma_mask)
+			goto err;
+
+		*pdev->dev.dma_mask = pdevinfo->dma_mask;
+		pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = pdevinfo->dma_mask;
+	}
+
+	ret = platform_device_add_resources(pdev,
+			pdevinfo->res, pdevinfo->num_res);
 	if (ret)
 		goto err;
 
-	ret = platform_device_add_data(pdev, data, size);
+	ret = platform_device_add_data(pdev,
+			pdevinfo->data, pdevinfo->size_data);
 	if (ret)
 		goto err;
 
 	ret = platform_device_add(pdev);
 	if (ret) {
 err:
+		kfree(pdev->dev.dma_mask);
+
+err_alloc:
 		platform_device_put(pdev);
 		return ERR_PTR(ret);
 	}
 
 	return pdev;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_register_resndata);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_register_full);
 
 static int platform_drv_probe(struct device *_dev)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/platform_device.h b/include/linux/platform_device.h
index 27bb05a..651a066 100644
--- a/include/linux/platform_device.h
+++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h
@@ -49,10 +49,54 @@
 extern int platform_get_irq_byname(struct platform_device *, const char *);
 extern int platform_add_devices(struct platform_device **, int);
 
-extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_resndata(
+struct platform_device_info {
+		struct device *parent;
+
+		const char *name;
+		int id;
+
+		const struct resource *res;
+		unsigned int num_res;
+
+		const void *data;
+		size_t size_data;
+		u64 dma_mask;
+};
+extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_full(
+		struct platform_device_info *pdevinfo);
+
+/**
+ * platform_device_register_resndata - add a platform-level device with
+ * resources and platform-specific data
+ *
+ * @parent: parent device for the device we're adding
+ * @name: base name of the device we're adding
+ * @id: instance id
+ * @res: set of resources that needs to be allocated for the device
+ * @num: number of resources
+ * @data: platform specific data for this platform device
+ * @size: size of platform specific data
+ *
+ * Returns &struct platform_device pointer on success, or ERR_PTR() on error.
+ */
+static inline struct platform_device *platform_device_register_resndata(
 		struct device *parent, const char *name, int id,
 		const struct resource *res, unsigned int num,
-		const void *data, size_t size);
+		const void *data, size_t size) {
+
+	struct platform_device_info pdevinfo = {
+		.parent = parent,
+		.name = name,
+		.id = id,
+		.res = res,
+		.num_res = num,
+		.data = data,
+		.size_data = size,
+		.dma_mask = 0,
+	};
+
+	return platform_device_register_full(&pdevinfo);
+}
 
 /**
  * platform_device_register_simple - add a platform-level device and its resources