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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] powerpc: add scanning of ebc bus to of_platform
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:17:39 +0100
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>> That's probably best -- no sense in registering devices
>> on buses that the platform doesn't know how to drive!
>
> But the platform doesn't need how to drive them, the device driver
> needs to.

No -- the platform needs to know how to do low-level
bus operations (I/O reads, etc).  For most memory-mapped
buses this is pretty trivial, of course.

Maybe we're just disagreeing over the word "platform"
here?


Segher