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
next prev parent 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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