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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/4]device core changes
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 04:28:22 +0000
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:45:37AM +0800, Li Shaohua wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:24, Greg KH wrote:
> > Maybe your other patches weren't so bad...  If we implement them, can we
> > drop the platform notify stuff?
> Currently only ARM use 'platform_notify', and we can easily convert it
> to use per-bus 'platform_bind'. One concern of per-bus 'platform_bind'
> is we will have many '#ifdef ..' if many platforms implement their
> per-bus 'platform_bind'.

Except none of the merged ARM platforms use platform_notify, and I haven't
seen any suggestion in the ARM world of why it would be needed.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core