From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Subject: Re: "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model?
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:16:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040107211656.D18708@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040107173345.GD31177@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:33:45AM -0800
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:33:45AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:00:16AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Would it make sense for the driver model core to add a "miscellaneous" or
> > "other" bus, intended for devices or drivers that are one-of-a-kind or
> > otherwise non-standard? Kind of similar to the platform bus but meant
> > for new things, not part of a legacy or other system/architecture-specific
> > base?
>
> That's what the "legacy" bus is for. There's a patch floating around
> that renames that bus to "platform" to remove any connotation that
> "legacy" might occur.
Can we get this patch merged ASAP please? It should really have gone
in before 2.6 so we don't have this change during a stable kernel series.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-07 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-07 16:00 "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model? Alan Stern
2004-01-07 17:33 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 21:16 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-01-07 21:20 ` Jeff Garzik
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