On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 01:57:49PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > This reverts commit 7975bd4cca05a99aa14964cfa22366ee64da50ad, because > VPD relies on driver core to handle deferrals returned by > coreboot_table_find(). > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> > Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <gro...@chromium.org> > --- > > Greg, here is the revert we discussed. > > I will look into whether we could make coreboot table not use deferrals, > but some mother mechanism to notify users that the data is available. > The entities we are dealing here with are not really hardware devices > and I consider using platform devices/drivers for them misuse of the > driver model, but for now it needs to stay as it was.
If they aren't platform devices, then why just make them "virtual" devices, using a simple device_create() call with no parent? thanks, greg k-h
