Currently the devices created by drivers/of/platform.c get created at the root of /sys/devices. This goes against the typical pattern for sysfs where the top level /sys/devices structure contains categories of devices, and the structure of devices is placed below that. To fix this, make the code in drivers/of/platform.c follow the drivers/base/platform.c behaviour, and use &platform_bus as the default parent for all new platform_devices and amba_devices. This change has been discussed for a long time, but nobody has actually acted on it. Userspace code that expects to find devices under a fixed /sys/devices/... path will be affected. It isn't /supposed/ to do that, but if anyone complains then I'll add a default-off workaround option to put them back into the root. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/of/platform.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c index 3b64d0bf5bba..7c6771986c06 100644 --- a/drivers/of/platform.c +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ struct platform_device *of_device_alloc(struct device_node *np, } dev->dev.of_node = of_node_get(np); - dev->dev.parent = parent; + dev->dev.parent = parent ? : &platform_bus; if (bus_id) dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "%s", bus_id); @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static struct amba_device *of_amba_device_create(struct device_node *node, /* setup generic device info */ dev->dev.of_node = of_node_get(node); - dev->dev.parent = parent; + dev->dev.parent = parent ? : &platform_bus; dev->dev.platform_data = platform_data; if (bus_id) dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "%s", bus_id); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
