Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753167Ab3J3Vg6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:36:58 -0400 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:43286 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751803Ab3J3Vg4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:36:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:36:02 -0700 From: Mark Brown To: Darren Hart Cc: Linus Walleij , Lee Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "H. Peter Anvin" , "peter.p.waskiewicz.jr" , Andy Shevchenko , danders , "vishal.l.verma" , Matthew Garrett , Grant Likely , Richard Purdie , platform-driver-x86 Message-ID: <20131030213602.GQ2493@sirena.org.uk> References: <1372398218.9243.29.camel@envy.home> <20130704162641.GG27646@sirena.org.uk> <20130721234134.GA9858@sirena.org.uk> <1383142680.2460.5.camel@dvhart-mobl4.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xiprIVX1FSGBv8kC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1383142680.2460.5.camel@dvhart-mobl4.amr.corp.intel.com> X-Cookie: You love peace. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 66.78.236.243 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] minnowboard: Add base platform driver for the MinnowBoard X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:57:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1974 Lines: 48 --xiprIVX1FSGBv8kC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 02:18:00PM +0000, Darren Hart wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 00:41 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > I'd expect it to be a bus, yes. > It seems to me the platform bus already provides everything we need. We > can just make a platform driver, say platform-id-gpio.c which can get > it's platform data from OF or ACPI (_PRP proposal from kernel summit > last week for example). Why would a separate bus type need to be > defined? For the identifier space. We ought to be able to register handling for plugin boards separately to notifying the system of their existance in a similar fashion to how we register drivers for anything else. --xiprIVX1FSGBv8kC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJScXu/AAoJELSic+t+oim9O2UP/1j3RBDdt9UslWA3FTv4oiEl b6/li/yUAcrEaR73zsSb2S3gnyC7khitAazykrUsaFWTMCQ/B5SEi8ZBjem5KN8+ V5ghIZhBQ3KXQsLwMMjDJ+jfaaIi7ChIsXuPMP4c1qhZIXzb7a4KhGti+fi1nug/ DXJJGDZIDC5YWwDKfP6KQxcLZSfJzKE1Rhgg1CKXlHxHfqAmyGvgm8QXq7kejJUs 667MhRQvblbtYnCN3Pn580QZlr3TJ9mG4ezUbYQF5d5NfloM4v4AuJWuWbThi9uV c+MELlI6L3FbVpgNZYIRVsGETMvoHPZ9VUuDCgzebdcb5cte0+VbkqfJhksPplnM CSTpk99eKlnpXkU2E1ILZuP9mb9riPr/KQqZ8ph55wdd/Tj6PNW/rk+U4KIiE6vK jqE09dQOSZZr3j2xrvxo4MIbQvnNKJLWgneSoyT4pUh0fOHRMRFMLnnWelGal2Di Nn5NVJtmvOzIWv8FFNyu6D5p30L/Seli3D4V/2dH5RDYOJ0Dl+A4iAqR78vjBmZ1 hQKDpXvl+jn4+0cO1CcYjPDmoCMPKV7/+wET3kUJOyN0NdLEocacZN1N0AxlbvPr kmEqO/sT7k6gMIw0zptZw/WW/+aC3edk38/ec3SAKemTrwqwYK3qNpdBHTnSn3EN d+bQtVWOrhkEVBqla5r6 =ywXl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xiprIVX1FSGBv8kC-- -- 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/