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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] powerpc: add scanning of ebc bus to of_platform
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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. :)

Paul.