From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754712Ab3KCVJl (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Nov 2013 16:09:41 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49097 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754166Ab3KCVJj (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Nov 2013 16:09:39 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 08:09:23 +1100 From: NeilBrown To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, lkml Subject: Re: Strange location and name for platform devices when device-tree is used. Message-ID: <20131104080923.1ea15ebc@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: <20131102155824.GG23938@kroah.com> References: <20131101145925.66e22f73@notabene.brown> <1383279744.28909.26.camel@pasglop> <1383280054.28909.30.camel@pasglop> <20131101160329.37f3707b@notabene.brown> <1383282516.28909.36.camel@pasglop> <20131101204749.GA19662@kroah.com> <1383347399.28909.46.camel@pasglop> <20131102155824.GG23938@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.18; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/bu7TFMWwKBuv+tdscbup8yg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Sig_/bu7TFMWwKBuv+tdscbup8yg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:58:24 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman 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 --Sig_/bu7TFMWwKBuv+tdscbup8yg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBUna7gznsnt1WYoG5AQLochAAsLXEbdfWDIwUy2BSdXxmvD1/FujnHjYq TDuJVeliTQs4GFbezPNxyrAgD1pByQFfsvz1cbwg9Et5Ju80DzCyi6s2T0Z7Uwg7 txOqWSRJyIq3looyZZZWf8lgovGxFULdl45JMy3sz0Av95YuCCTqeWE+NLPmrBdV SR1MsaYhkTxRPhQegfeLU8Cs/IRUC4JfNW/nRr7l5kxgMk43mOgWtn/gE0jjcvSf n8tglq0SB76BAA3v5K+SMCPxAXfr992RtKyMM1DHzkAyD/x9jwKTis7+5oVJssfp aifAiWJ8qxFXxMV1Liei1H0+Iw2yXyQUzF+xHTepuu7r1lO/2tluM482uyEuqzpb BeCEOBPIuOHwsICNXVR1T24U++aomn+iolaTEpzIpvS82viHyMms5M0JahdeUxjf M+c6LfNNbeZuw43/VcmhHy+qmgEvzi4A4B/QH+5+j0Jd5xwYat2JSpEwTA4h+baY f28Es2MxVcxTtdDlcQwJj9OFm5YD2TX4zN43X6VDgOmPTYJ2PMkIvSL2UCim13D/ 7SKclnTSAAq6pSVyOUuxMo8nXDD/BqomaFJuSLjGEsx307YRsT+3MJof3BQOn9AP oqUwyV8VHglljPWSRytiI3albfOWyc47cYOJ3hmRwXvhMoG/3S3E9dN4VFdOaEnc DCMR8QcmAQs= =aZNB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/bu7TFMWwKBuv+tdscbup8yg--