On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> wrote: > The "platform_bus" (note: not platform_bus_type) only exists as an empty > directory to put platform devices into. However, it really doesn't make > sense to segregate all the platform devices into a sub directory when > typically they are memory mapped devices that doen't go through any > particular bus. Particularly on embedded type platforms the platform_bus > directory doesn't add anything. > > However, this will probably just end up breaking some userspace that > depends on the /sys/devices/platform/ path to be present (no matter how > much we protest that userspace must not depend on paths in sysfs). So > while I'm seriously proposing this change, it may just be unacceptable > ABI breakage
An old thread, but was there ever a conclusion to this? We now have a mixture of using platform_bus as the parent or not on various ARM platforms. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
