From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeauror>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv1 1/2] Export SoC info through sysfs
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:20:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110310152011.GH22195@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103101602.19241.arnd@arndb.de>
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:02:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I can accept that it's reasonable to put all devices under
> /sys/devices/platform/ that are on the same top-level AHB or APB bus,
> although I also don't see a reason against making that bus a single
> device.
You could, though the bus will just be a noop. Typically it's more than
one bus but software basically can't tell.
> The one thing that really doesn't belong in /sys/devices/platform/
> however are devices that are clearly children of some other
> device, e.g. a UART behind MFD behind I2C behind AHB.
Right, and we seem to be fairly good at squashing such bugs when people
notice them.
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From: broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (Mark Brown)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCHv1 1/2] Export SoC info through sysfs
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:20:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110310152011.GH22195@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103101602.19241.arnd@arndb.de>
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:02:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I can accept that it's reasonable to put all devices under
> /sys/devices/platform/ that are on the same top-level AHB or APB bus,
> although I also don't see a reason against making that bus a single
> device.
You could, though the bus will just be a noop. Typically it's more than
one bus but software basically can't tell.
> The one thing that really doesn't belong in /sys/devices/platform/
> however are devices that are clearly children of some other
> device, e.g. a UART behind MFD behind I2C behind AHB.
Right, and we seem to be fairly good at squashing such bugs when people
notice them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-10 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-09 16:59 [RFC PATCHv1 0/2] Export SoC info through sysfs Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-09 16:59 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-09 16:59 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-09 16:59 ` [RFC PATCHv1 1/2] " Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-09 16:59 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-09 16:59 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-09 17:39 ` Jamie Iles
2011-03-09 17:39 ` Jamie Iles
2011-03-10 9:45 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-10 9:45 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-09 17:47 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-09 17:47 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-10 9:58 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-10 9:58 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-10 13:18 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-10 13:18 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-10 13:16 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-10 13:16 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-09 19:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-09 19:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 12:56 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-10 12:56 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-10 13:25 ` Linus Walleij
2011-03-10 13:25 ` Linus Walleij
2011-03-10 14:08 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-10 14:08 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-10 14:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 14:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 14:44 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-10 14:44 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-10 15:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 15:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 15:10 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-10 15:10 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-10 15:17 ` Linus Walleij
2011-03-10 15:17 ` Linus Walleij
2011-03-10 15:21 ` Helmut Raiger
2011-03-10 15:20 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-03-10 15:20 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-10 16:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 16:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 16:19 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-10 16:19 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-10 16:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 16:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 14:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 14:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 16:05 ` Linus Walleij
2011-03-10 16:05 ` Linus Walleij
2011-03-10 16:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 16:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 17:08 ` Linus Walleij
2011-03-10 17:08 ` Linus Walleij
2011-03-11 16:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-11 16:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-09 20:38 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-03-09 20:38 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-03-09 16:59 ` [RFC PATCHv1 2/2] ux500: Export U8500 " Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-09 16:59 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-09 16:59 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-09 20:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-09 20:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 13:05 ` [RFC PATCHv1 0/2] Export " Eduardo Valentin
2011-03-10 13:05 ` Eduardo Valentin
2011-03-10 13:36 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-03-10 13:36 ` Maxime Coquelin
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