Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758168Ab0HJXxn (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:53:43 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:46147 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757854Ab0HJXxi (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:53:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:53:23 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Grant Likely 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 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] platform: Faciliatate the creation of pseduo-platform busses Message-ID: <20100810235323.GA24612@suse.de> References: <20100803235631.GA17759@suse.de> <4C58AE15.6090900@codeaurora.org> <20100804000945.GA19729@suse.de> <4C58B1B6.9050005@quicinc.com> <20100806142727.GB4921@suse.de> <20100806234635.GC16793@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1248 Lines: 28 On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 11:28:13AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > 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. Yes, that would be the easier (and better) solution. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/