From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@quicinc.com>,
Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
"damm@opensource.se" <damm@opensource.se>,
"lethal@linux-sh.org" <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
"rjw@sisk.pl" <rjw@sisk.pl>, "dtor@mail.ru" <dtor@mail.ru>,
"eric.y.miao@gmail.com" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] platform: Faciliatate the creation of pseduo-platform busses
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 07:27:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100806142727.GB4921@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikVzh9=DvvUPbKmDeo6k2-pPVSnjH+GxAPdQFO4@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 04:59:35PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> (On that point Greg, what is the reason for even having the
> /sys/devices/platform/ parent? Why not just let the platform devices
> sit at the root of the device tree? In the OF case (granted, I'm
> biased) all of the platform_device registrations reflect the actual
> device hierarchy expressed in the device tree data.)
If we sat them at the "root", there would be a bunch of them there. I
don't know, we could drop the parent, I guess whoever created the
platform device oh so long ago, decided that it would look nicer to be
in this type of structure.
> Now, having gone on this whole long tirade, it looks like having
> separate platform bus types may not be the best approach after all.
I totally agree, and thanks for the detailed explaination, it saved me
from having to write up the same thing :)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-06 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-03 23:35 [RFC PATCH] platform: Faciliatate the creation of pseduo-platform busses Patrick Pannuto
2010-08-03 23:36 ` Patrick Pannuto
2010-08-03 23:56 ` Greg KH
2010-08-04 0:02 ` Patrick Pannuto
2010-08-04 0:09 ` Greg KH
2010-08-04 0:17 ` Patrick Pannuto
2010-08-04 0:41 ` Timothy Meade
2010-08-05 22:59 ` Grant Likely
2010-08-06 14:27 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-08-06 15:12 ` Grant Likely
2010-08-06 23:46 ` Greg KH
2010-08-07 6:35 ` Grant Likely
2010-08-07 17:28 ` Grant Likely
2010-08-10 23:53 ` Greg KH
2010-08-05 23:00 ` Grant Likely
2010-08-04 9:37 ` Alan Cox
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