From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] powerpc: add scanning of ebc bus to of_platform
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:56:08 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165820168.7260.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17788.49546.390921.608302@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 13:25 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann writes:
>
> > But the platform doesn't need how to drive them, the device driver
> > needs to. All the platform needs to know is the fact that it can
> > deal with SOC devices that are automatically probed.
> >
> > I'd much prefer to have the list in the same file that drives the
> > devices in the first place. It's probably also good to register
> > them as MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(), for documentation purposes, even
> > if the driver can't be built as a module yet.
>
> So is that an ack or a nack for the patch? Sounds like a nack to me,
> but I'm not sure. :)
Put it in for now.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-11 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-08 10:41 [patch] powerpc: add scanning of ebc bus to of_platform Christian Krafft
2006-12-08 22:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-09 10:04 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-12-09 11:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-12-10 12:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-12-11 2:25 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-11 6:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-12-11 10:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
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