Re: "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model?

[Russell King]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:33:45AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:00:16AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Would it make sense for the driver model core to add a "miscellaneous" or 
> > "other" bus, intended for devices or drivers that are one-of-a-kind or 
> > otherwise non-standard?  Kind of similar to the platform bus but meant 
> > for new things, not part of a legacy or other system/architecture-specific 
> > base?
> 
> That's what the "legacy" bus is for.  There's a patch floating around
> that renames that bus to "platform" to remove any connotation that
> "legacy" might occur.

Can we get this patch merged ASAP please?  It should really have gone
in before 2.6 so we don't have this change during a stable kernel series.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/