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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Handling devices that don't have a bus
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 09:32:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604010932.55104.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0604011128020.17557-100000@netrider.rowland.org>

On Saturday 01 April 2006 8:46 am, Alan Stern wrote:

> I think you have misunderstood my point.  Yes, devices are part of the
> platform bus only if they explicitly want to be.  My point was that even
> though they _do_ want to be on the platform bus, 

I'm not clear on why it would want to be on the platform bus;
what would its inner platform-ness consist of?

There really isn't a "bus" that makes much sense for such a
singleton device to sit on.  


> in this situation they 
> _can't_ because they are forced to register a struct device, not a struct
> platform_device.  The choice is not up to the driver; it is determined by
> the USB Gadget framework. 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-01 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-30 20:45 Handling devices that don't have a bus Alan Stern
2006-03-30 21:28 ` David Brownell
2006-03-30 22:26 ` Greg KH
2006-04-01  9:38   ` Russell King
2006-04-01  9:47 ` Russell King
2006-04-01 16:46   ` Alan Stern
2006-04-01 17:12     ` Russell King
2006-04-01 17:32     ` David Brownell [this message]
2006-04-01 20:14       ` Alan Stern

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