From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266245AbUAGVVP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:21:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266254AbUAGVVP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:21:15 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:50105 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266245AbUAGVVK (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:21:10 -0500 Message-ID: <3FFC782B.1060307@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:20:43 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King CC: Greg KH , Alan Stern , Kernel development list , Patrick Mochel Subject: Re: "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model? References: <20040107173345.GD31177@kroah.com> <20040107211656.D18708@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040107211656.D18708@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:33:45AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >>On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:00:16AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: >> >>>Would it make sense for the driver model core to add a "miscellaneous" or >>>"other" bus, intended for devices or drivers that are one-of-a-kind or >>>otherwise non-standard? Kind of similar to the platform bus but meant >>>for new things, not part of a legacy or other system/architecture-specific >>>base? >> >>That's what the "legacy" bus is for. There's a patch floating around >>that renames that bus to "platform" to remove any connotation that >>"legacy" might occur. > > > Can we get this patch merged ASAP please? It should really have gone > in before 2.6 so we don't have this change during a stable kernel series. It's already in :) Jeff ChangeSet@1.1474.51.99, 2003-12-29 21:54:21-08:00, akpm@osdl.org [PATCH] Rename legacy_bus to platform_bus From: Jeff Garzik I've seen this patch floating around. Not sure the origin, but it's surfaced on lkml and also when I was poking around handhelds.org CVS for iPAQ patches: on non-PCs, particularly system-on-chip devices but not just there, you have a custom "platform bus" that is the root of pretty much all other devices and buses. It's something I wanted to make sure people didn't forget; to make sure the legacy_bus didn't get "legacied out of existence." ;-)