From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange location and name for platform devices when device-tree is used.
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 08:09:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131104080923.1ea15ebc@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131102155824.GG23938@kroah.com>
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:58:24 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> So go blame them for this, not me, remember, I'm the one who _hates_
> platform devices and wish they had never been created...
Have you ever written up why you hate them? I did a bit of googling and
couldn't find anything obvious.
Is it the whole concept, or the particular details that you don't like?
(I find the concept seems to make perfect sense, though there are a lot of
details that I don't know).
Thanks,
NeilBrown
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-03 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-01 3:59 Strange location and name for platform devices when device-tree is used NeilBrown
2013-11-01 4:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-01 4:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-01 5:03 ` NeilBrown
2013-11-01 5:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-01 18:04 ` Grant Likely
2013-11-01 20:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-15 7:37 ` Grant Likely
2013-11-01 20:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-01 20:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-01 23:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-02 15:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-02 20:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-02 20:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-03 21:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-03 21:09 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2013-11-01 23:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-01 23:45 ` NeilBrown
2013-11-04 8:56 ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-15 7:44 ` Grant Likely
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