On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 01:49:07PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 13:12, Mark Brown > <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:44:57PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > >> We will convert all classes to buses over time time, and have a single > >> type of device and a single type of subsystem. > > > > Are there any conversions that have been done already that I can look at > > for reference? > > The first step is the conversion from 'sys_device' to 'device', which is here: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kay/patches.git;a=tree > > That should hit the tree soon, if all works according to plan. All > sys_devices and sysdev classes will be gone for forever. Even cpu node is device, I still need to find a way to get it. I think it's better have another patch to fix the regulator dt binding in cpu node. I'll not include it in this patch series. Richard > > The 'class' to 'bus' work is simpler, because the logic in both of > them is very similar and both use the same 'struct device' already. > > We'll need to add some convenience APIs to bus, and add code to make > sure the converted stuff has compat symlinks in /sys/class when > needed. Then we can convert-over one 'struct class' to 'struct > bus_type' after the other until 'struct class' can be deleted. > > This work has not yet started, because we are busy with the sys_device > stuff at the moment. > > No new stuff should use 'struct class' or 'struct sys_device', they > should all start right away with 'struct bus_type'. > > Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
