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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
