Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/4]device core changes
From: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: ACPI-DEV <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
       Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
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On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:24, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hm, hopefully Pat will chime in about what would be best for this, as he
> > > created the platform_notify interface.
> > Ok, an updated version. Use 'platform_notify', but add a 'type' in 
> > 'struct bus_type'. Using bus_type->name to identify the bus type is
> > pretty much ugly and slow. 
> 
> No, no "type" for a bus, sorry.
> 
> Maybe your other patches weren't so bad...  If we implement them, can we
> drop the platform notify stuff?
Currently only ARM use 'platform_notify', and we can easily convert it
to use per-bus 'platform_bind'. One concern of per-bus 'platform_bind'
is we will have many '#ifdef ..' if many platforms implement their
per-bus 'platform_bind'.

Thanks,
Shaohua

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