From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF34167BEA for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:56:56 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [patch] powerpc: add scanning of ebc bus to of_platform From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Paul Mackerras In-Reply-To: <17788.49546.390921.608302@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20061208114113.2191e446@localhost> <1165618381.1103.89.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200612091236.57252.arnd@arndb.de> <17788.49546.390921.608302@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:56:08 +1100 Message-Id: <1165820168.7260.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Arnd Bergmann , Christian Krafft List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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.