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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] staging: ion: create one device entry per heap
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On 10/31/2017 12:11 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:03:35PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> 
>> I'm not a fan of the platform bus but I have mixed feelings about
>> creating a dedicated bus type. I guess if we really need a bus
>> type we can do it later?
> 
> There was a discussion a while ago in the context of I2C/SPI MFDs
> which concluded that if you need a bus and it's going to be effectively
> noop then you should just use the platform bus as anything else will
> consist almost entirely of cut'n'paste from the platform bus with some
> light sed usage and code duplication is bad.  It's not super lovely as
> it's not actually a memory mapped device but it's the best idea we've
> got.
> 

Thanks for the pointer.

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