[RFC PATCHv2 1/2] Export SoC info through sysfs

[lee.jones@linaro.org (Lee Jones)]

On 11/03/11 22:13, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 11 March 2011 23:03:33 Greg KH wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:42:43PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Friday 11 March 2011 20:33:30 Greg KH wrote:
>>>> Make this a "real" device not /sys/socinfo please.  It can be a platform
>>>> device that export the needed information, that way you can have
>>>> multiple ones.
>>>
>>> Note that the version 1 of this patch had a device, and I argued against
>>> that patch on the basis that anything under /sys/devices/ should
>>> reflect an actual part of the hardware, which socinfo by itself
>>> does not.
>>
>> Why is the overall SoC not a device?  cpus are (well, they will be in a
>> few kernel versions in the future), so what makes the other bits somehow
>> "special"?
> 
> The suggestion was to have a single disconnected device stuck 
> in /sys/devices/system/socinfo, and only have it there to
> contain device attributes that can be collected from random
> places in the system, such hardcoded board specific data,
> or read from registers that belong to another device.
> 
> A real device IMHO would be one that has specific hardware
> properties, such as its own set of device registers or other
> devices that are attached to it and that are represented
> as children of this device.

Unfortunately, Maxime is extremely busy at the moment, so I have taken
over to finally get this thing upstream. Just for clarification what's
the _final_ verdict on the location of this entry? Something that we can
all agree on.