Re: PNP and bus association

[Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>]

Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> 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.
>
It's not a physical bus but it is a bus as far as the kernel is 
concerned. And that's really my problem. I want it to support PNP, but 
also to associate with the physical bus it's connected to.

Rgds
Pierre

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