* "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model?
@ 2004-01-07 16:00 Alan Stern
2004-01-07 17:33 ` Greg KH
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From: Alan Stern @ 2004-01-07 16:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg KH, Patrick Mochel; +Cc: Kernel development list
Would it make sense for the driver model core to add a "miscellaneous" or
"other" bus, intended for devices or drivers that are one-of-a-kind or
otherwise non-standard? Kind of similar to the platform bus but meant
for new things, not part of a legacy or other system/architecture-specific
base?
Doing this would give people a place to register these things without
forcing them to go to the trouble of making up their own special-purpose
bus or class. And without the extra code/data space a special-purpose
driver-specific bus would require.
Alan Stern
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* Re: "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model?
2004-01-07 16:00 "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model? Alan Stern
@ 2004-01-07 17:33 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 21:16 ` Russell King
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From: Greg KH @ 2004-01-07 17:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alan Stern; +Cc: Kernel development list, Patrick Mochel
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:00:16AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> Would it make sense for the driver model core to add a "miscellaneous" or
> "other" bus, intended for devices or drivers that are one-of-a-kind or
> otherwise non-standard? Kind of similar to the platform bus but meant
> for new things, not part of a legacy or other system/architecture-specific
> base?
That's what the "legacy" bus is for. There's a patch floating around
that renames that bus to "platform" to remove any connotation that
"legacy" might occur.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
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* Re: "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model?
2004-01-07 17:33 ` Greg KH
@ 2004-01-07 21:16 ` Russell King
2004-01-07 21:20 ` Jeff Garzik
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From: Russell King @ 2004-01-07 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg KH; +Cc: Alan Stern, Kernel development list, Patrick Mochel
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:33:45AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:00:16AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Would it make sense for the driver model core to add a "miscellaneous" or
> > "other" bus, intended for devices or drivers that are one-of-a-kind or
> > otherwise non-standard? Kind of similar to the platform bus but meant
> > for new things, not part of a legacy or other system/architecture-specific
> > base?
>
> That's what the "legacy" bus is for. There's a patch floating around
> that renames that bus to "platform" to remove any connotation that
> "legacy" might occur.
Can we get this patch merged ASAP please? It should really have gone
in before 2.6 so we don't have this change during a stable kernel series.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
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* Re: "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model?
2004-01-07 21:16 ` Russell King
@ 2004-01-07 21:20 ` Jeff Garzik
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From: Jeff Garzik @ 2004-01-07 21:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Russell King; +Cc: Greg KH, Alan Stern, Kernel development list, Patrick Mochel
Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:33:45AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:00:16AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
>>
>>>Would it make sense for the driver model core to add a "miscellaneous" or
>>>"other" bus, intended for devices or drivers that are one-of-a-kind or
>>>otherwise non-standard? Kind of similar to the platform bus but meant
>>>for new things, not part of a legacy or other system/architecture-specific
>>>base?
>>
>>That's what the "legacy" bus is for. There's a patch floating around
>>that renames that bus to "platform" to remove any connotation that
>>"legacy" might occur.
>
>
> Can we get this patch merged ASAP please? It should really have gone
> in before 2.6 so we don't have this change during a stable kernel series.
It's already in :)
Jeff
ChangeSet@1.1474.51.99, 2003-12-29 21:54:21-08:00, akpm@osdl.org
[PATCH] Rename legacy_bus to platform_bus
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
I've seen this patch floating around. Not sure the origin, but it's
surfaced on lkml and also when I was poking around handhelds.org CVS for
iPAQ patches: on non-PCs, particularly system-on-chip devices but not
just there, you have a custom "platform bus" that is the root of pretty
much all other devices and buses.
It's something I wanted to make sure people didn't forget; to make sure
the legacy_bus didn't get "legacied out of existence." ;-)
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