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From: Jonathan Mayer <jonmayer@google.com>
To: dtor_core@ameritech.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] added sysdev attribute to sysdev show/store methods - for linux-2.6.13.4
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:07:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a45da430510201607x78c5e432r5d641c46dd15eeaa@mail.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000510201603n50c068dcyade2ce2cfd2311e0@mail.gmail.com>

> If it is a device it goes onto corresponding bus. Platform bus is a
> kind of a kitchen sink for things that do not have a "real" bus -
> things like keyboard controller, older ISA devices, etc. Only things
> that necessary to get the box going and have to be suspended last with
> interrupts off (like IRQ controller) should be implemented as system
> devices.

I see!  Okay, I will make this so.  Thanks for the explanation.

Even so, I still think my patch is a good idea (for the sysdev
attributes, and all kobject attribute derived thingies in general).

 - Jonathan.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-20 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-20 21:47 Jonathan Mayer
2005-10-20 21:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-20 22:03   ` Jonathan Mayer
2005-10-20 23:03     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-20 23:07       ` Jonathan Mayer [this message]
2005-10-21  0:26         ` Greg KH
2005-10-21  0:42           ` Jonathan Mayer
2005-10-21  4:07             ` Greg KH
2005-10-20 22:00 ` Jonathan Mayer

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