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.
next prev 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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