From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Joachim Fenkes <FENKES@de.ibm.com>
Cc: pmac@au1.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
johnrose@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc1] powerpc: Make of_device_uevent() compatible with ibmebus
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:47:52 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171914472.18571.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF18F067AE.FF85D78B-ON85257287.005ADAC3-85257287.005B37D9@de.ibm.com>
> If I make the root device a basic struct device, it can't be part of
> ibmebus any
> longer. If we could create a busless device, we wouldn't have a problem,
> but I
> doubt that is possible.
>
> Do you have any creative ideas?
Well, I think PCI does just that for PCI busses ... (a busless device)
Ben.
> > It's a generic problem with sysfs, I agree it somewhat sucks.
>
> With ya.
>
> Later,
> Joachim
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-19 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-17 16:28 [PATCH 2.6.21-rc1] powerpc: Make of_device_uevent() compatible with ibmebus Hoang-Nam Nguyen
2007-02-17 21:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 0:21 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-02-18 0:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 16:36 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-02-19 19:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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