Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753997Ab0HGR2g (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2010 13:28:36 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:43211 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751615Ab0HGR2e convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2010 13:28:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4C58A7AA.8020007@codeaurora.org> <20100803235631.GA17759@suse.de> <4C58AE15.6090900@codeaurora.org> <20100804000945.GA19729@suse.de> <4C58B1B6.9050005@quicinc.com> <20100806142727.GB4921@suse.de> <20100806234635.GC16793@suse.de> From: Grant Likely Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 11:28:13 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4FREdLR1Ml4Wb-1OTnFUodx1dsc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] platform: Faciliatate the creation of pseduo-platform busses To: Greg KH Cc: Patrick Pannuto , Patrick Pannuto , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "damm@opensource.se" , "lethal@linux-sh.org" , "rjw@sisk.pl" , "dtor@mail.ru" , "eric.y.miao@gmail.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Kevin Hilman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1085 Lines: 23 On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> That would be nice, but take your "standard" PC today: >> ? ? ? ?> ls /sys/devices/platform/ >> ? ? ? ?Fixed MDIO bus.0 ?i8042 ?pcspkr ?power ?serial8250 ?uevent vesafb.0 >> >> There are tty devices below the serial port, which is nice to see, but >> the others? ?I don't know what type of bus they would be on, do you? [...] > I wouldn't have any problem modifying those specific drivers to > register under something like /sys/devices/legacy, but I don't really > think it is in any way necessary. Or for that matter, make those drivers explicitly use /sys/devices/platform so that I don't cause churn on PCs. :-) I'd like to be rid of it as default behaviour for embedded though. g. -- 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/