From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Cc: "Pantelis Antoniou" <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>,
"Tony Lindgren" <tony@atomide.com>,
"Russell King" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Benoît Coussno" <b-cousson@ti.com>,
"Paul Walmsley" <paul@pwsan.com>,
"Sourav Poddar" <sourav.poddar@ti.com>,
"Russ Dill" <Russ.Dill@ti.com>, "Felipe Balbi" <balbi@ti.com>,
"Koen Kooi" <koen@circuitco.com>,
linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: omap: Proper cleanups for omap_device
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 14:52:27 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130807055227.GB5304@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5200FC09.7080108@ahsoftware.de>
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:37:13PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 06.08.2013 12:14, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
>
> >> What exactly is a platform device anyway?
> >
> > Originally it was a "something that wasn't connected to a bus, but just
> > had memory-mapped i/o." Like the PS2 keyboard controller.
> >
> > Embedded systems got ahold of this and went to town, and made everything
> > a platform device because they could, and no one was paying attention.
> >
> > Then OF came along and used it as well, and you know the rest...
> >
> > I think we need to get the ACPI and OF people, and me, in a room
> > together at the kernel summit and not let us out until we have this all
> > worked out.
>
> MFD uses platform devices too.
Ugh, I've been avoiding looking at mfd for a long time now, and really
don't want to start now...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-07 5:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1375775624-12250-1-git-send-email-panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
[not found] ` <1375775624-12250-6-git-send-email-panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
2013-08-06 9:33 ` [PATCH 5/5] arm: omap: Proper cleanups for omap_device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-06 9:37 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-08-06 10:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-06 13:37 ` Alexander Holler
2013-08-07 5:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-08-07 15:22 ` Alexander Holler
2013-08-07 7:44 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-08-07 16:15 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-08-07 16:23 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-08-08 7:25 ` Tony Lindgren
[not found] ` <1375775624-12250-2-git-send-email-panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
2013-08-06 9:36 ` [PATCH 1/5] pdev: Fix platform device resource linking Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-06 9:45 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-08-06 10:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-06 10:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-08-07 5:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 8:27 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-08-06 10:27 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-08-07 5:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 7:37 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-08-07 17:13 ` Matt Porter
[not found] ` <1375775624-12250-4-git-send-email-panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
[not found] ` <87a9kt2vd8.fsf@linaro.org>
2013-08-08 9:23 ` [PATCH 3/5] omap: Properly handle resources for omap_devices Pantelis Antoniou
2013-08-09 15:16 ` Kevin Hilman
2013-08-09 15:32 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2013-08-09 16:35 ` Kevin Hilman
2013-08-09 18:08 ` Pantelis Antoniou
[not found] ` <1375775624-12250-5-git-send-email-panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
[not found] ` <87siyl19uk.fsf@linaro.org>
2013-08-08 9:29 ` [PATCH 4/5] omap: Avoid crashes in the case of hwmod misconfiguration Pantelis Antoniou
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