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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PNP and bus association
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:56:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41F97185.6030905@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41F95A42.40001@drzeus.cx>

Pierre Ossman wrote:
> I recently tried out adding PNP support to my driver to remove the 
> hassle of finding the correct parameters for it. This, however, causes 
> it to show up under the pnp bus, where as it previously was located 
> under the platform bus.
> 
> Is the idea that PNP devices should only reside on the PNP bus or is 
> there some magic available to get the device to appear on several buses? 
> It's a bit of a hassle to search in two different places in sysfs 
> depending on if PNP is used or not.
> 
> Also, the PNP bus doesn't really say that much about where the device is 
> physically connected. The other bus types usually give a hint about this.

Not to take away from your question, but:
Is there "the PNP bus"?  I've seen an ISA bus that (sort of)
supports PNP, PCI PNP, NuBus PNP, USB PNP, IEEE 1394 PNP, etc.

-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-27 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-27 21:16 PNP and bus association Pierre Ossman
2005-01-27 22:56 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2005-01-28 15:49   ` Pierre Ossman
2005-01-28 22:47 ` Adam Belay
2005-01-29  0:43   ` Pierre Ossman

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