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. Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
