Re: PNP and bus association

[Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>]

Adam Belay wrote:

>Hi Pierre,
>
>The platform bus does not show the actual physical relationship either.  For
>x86, ACPI is typically needed to determine this. It would be easy to bind to
>spawn pnp devices off of an ISA bridge device, attached to the pci bus, but
>whether it's the actual physical parent would be very difficult to determine
>without firmware assistance.
>
>At the moment the pnp bus is only showing a logical bus relationship.  If we
>were to use ACPI to aid in the generation of the physical device tree, we
>could put these devices in the correct physical location.
>  
>
So it is correct behaviour that the device shows up under /sys/bus/pnp 
when found using PNP, and /sys/bus/platform when scanned for?
I'm trying to get it to work well with HAL and it would be nice if it 
could be found in a consistent way.

Rgds
Pierre