From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:48:39 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Mark Brown Cc: michael.hennerich@analog.com, jic23@cam.ac.uk, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, drivers@analog.com, device-drivers-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IIO: TRIGGER: New sysfs based trigger Message-ID: <20110202204839.GA28852@kroah.com> References: <1296674468-24251-1-git-send-email-michael.hennerich@analog.com> <20110202194318.GB27065@kroah.com> <20110202195001.GH9810@sirena.org.uk> <20110202202641.GA28479@kroah.com> <20110202203107.GE28705@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20110202203107.GE28705@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> List-ID: On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:31:07PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:26:41PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 07:50:01PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > - the MFD subsystem is one of the most obvious examples here. > > > Don't make a device a "platform" device unless it really is one. This > > one isn't one, it's a "virtual" device, right? > > The discussion then always comes down to the fact that this then means > we have to define a new bus type which ends up being an exact copy of > the platform bus which isn't exactly ideal. Yeah, I understand :(