Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932092Ab3HGFvL (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Aug 2013 01:51:11 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59881 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932069Ab3HGFvI (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Aug 2013 01:51:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 14:52:27 +0900 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Alexander Holler Cc: Pantelis Antoniou , Tony Lindgren , Russell King , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Coussno , Paul Walmsley , Sourav Poddar , Russ Dill , Felipe Balbi , Koen Kooi , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: omap: Proper cleanups for omap_device Message-ID: <20130807055227.GB5304@kroah.com> References: <1375775624-12250-1-git-send-email-panto@antoniou-consulting.com> <1375775624-12250-6-git-send-email-panto@antoniou-consulting.com> <20130806093356.GA27889@kroah.com> <8C31ED90-E9EF-4264-858A-17CC2536B552@antoniou-consulting.com> <20130806101421.GA29283@kroah.com> <5200FC09.7080108@ahsoftware.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5200FC09.7080108@ahsoftware.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1089 Lines: 27 On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:37:13PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 06.08.2013 12:14, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > > >> What exactly is a platform device anyway? > > > > Originally it was a "something that wasn't connected to a bus, but just > > had memory-mapped i/o." Like the PS2 keyboard controller. > > > > Embedded systems got ahold of this and went to town, and made everything > > a platform device because they could, and no one was paying attention. > > > > Then OF came along and used it as well, and you know the rest... > > > > I think we need to get the ACPI and OF people, and me, in a room > > together at the kernel summit and not let us out until we have this all > > worked out. > > MFD uses platform devices too. Ugh, I've been avoiding looking at mfd for a long time now, and really don't want to start now... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/