From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Eric Miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fundamental Design Flaw of the Device Driver Model?
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:33:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910808220733o7a8904do9dec947dde7d09c0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f17812d70808212325m24f25518t5e8dd2fc5e7919b@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/22/08, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> wrote:
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> This, however, creates many questions you have to face with:
>
> 1. on what bus shall these sub-devices be?
> ** this is the reason I choose to use "platform_device", at least they
> can reside on the platform_bus_type, thus platform_driver can be used
> for this sub-device
Another option is making your own bus. If I understand your hardware
it effectively has an internal bus.
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-22 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-22 6:25 Eric Miao
2008-08-22 9:03 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-22 9:32 ` Eric Miao
2008-08-22 11:29 ` pHilipp Zabel
2008-08-23 0:56 ` Eric Miao
2008-08-22 11:17 ` Liam Girdwood
2008-08-22 14:00 ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-22 14:33 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2008-08-23 1:02 ` Eric Miao
2008-08-23 3:54 ` Jon Smirl
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