From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265246AbUBEPPe (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:15:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265270AbUBEPPd (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:15:33 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:22877 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265246AbUBEPPa (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:15:30 -0500 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Greg KH , Linux Kernel list , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI / OF linkage in sysfs References: <1075878713.992.3.camel@gaston> <20040204231324.GA5078@kroah.com> <1075938633.4029.53.camel@gaston> <1075939994.4371.58.camel@gaston> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 05 Feb 2004 08:08:19 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > On some platforms, we might have multiple different entries (eg on a PC we > might have pointers to ACPI data, to PnP data and to EFI data, all at the > same time. I hope we never will, but maybe there would be reason for it). > That would argue _against_ a "generic" name like "platform", and for > something that is actually very much specific to the kind of data it > points to (eg "of-data" rather than "platform-data"). And there is the possibility in the LinuxBIOS case that you can have ACPI, EFI, OF and the native LinuxBIOS interfaces all on one box :) The EFI side is the only piece we are in wait and see mode for at the moment. So it is seriously possible you get everything simultaneously. Eric