Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc1] powerpc: Make
	of_device_uevent()	compatible	with ibmebus
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Joachim Fenkes <FENKES@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, johnrose@us.ibm.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
       pmac@au1.ibm.com, Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tnt.com>
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> If I make the root device a basic struct device, it can't be part of 
> ibmebus any
> longer. If we could create a busless device, we wouldn't have a problem, 
> but I
> doubt that is possible.
> 
> Do you have any creative ideas?

Well, I think PCI does just that for PCI busses ... (a busless device)

Ben.

> > It's a generic problem with sysfs, I agree it somewhat sucks.
> 
> With ya.
> 
> Later,
>   Joachim
> 
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