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From: Grant Likely on 7 Aug 2010 13:30
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely(a)secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Greg KH <gregkh(a)suse.de> wrote:
>> That would be nice, but take your "standard" PC today:
>> � � � �> ls /sys/devices/platform/
>> � � � �Fixed MDIO bus.0 �i8042 �pcspkr �power �serial8250 �uevent vesafb.0
>>
>> There are tty devices below the serial port, which is nice to see, but
>> the others? �I don't know what type of bus they would be on, do you?
[...]
> I wouldn't have any problem modifying those specific drivers to
> register under something like /sys/devices/legacy, but I don't really
> think it is in any way necessary.

Or for that matter, make those drivers explicitly use
/sys/devices/platform so that I don't cause churn on PCs. :-) I'd
like to be rid of it as default behaviour for embedded though.

g.
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