Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261858AbUKJE2v (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 23:28:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261857AbUKJE2v (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 23:28:51 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:49166 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261858AbUKJE2a (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 23:28:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 04:28:22 +0000 From: Russell King To: Li Shaohua Cc: Greg KH , ACPI-DEV , lkml , Len Brown , Patrick Mochel Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/4]device core changes Message-ID: <20041110042822.A13318@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Li Shaohua , Greg KH , ACPI-DEV , lkml , Len Brown , Patrick Mochel References: <1099887071.1750.243.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> <20041108225810.GB16197@kroah.com> <1099961418.15294.11.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> <1099971341.15294.48.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> <20041109045843.GA4849@kroah.com> <1099990981.15294.57.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> <20041110012443.GA9496@kroah.com> <1100051137.7825.6.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1100051137.7825.6.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com>; from shaohua.li@intel.com on Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:45:37AM +0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1027 Lines: 22 On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:45:37AM +0800, Li Shaohua wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:24, Greg KH wrote: > > 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'. Except none of the merged ARM platforms use platform_notify, and I haven't seen any suggestion in the ARM world of why it would be needed. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core - 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/