Re: [PATCH v5 03/11] nvmem: Add a simple NVMEM framework for nvmem providers

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On 24/06/15 01:24, Stephen Boyd wrote:
Can you assign the attributes to the device_type in the nvmem::struct
device? I don't see why these attributes need to be part of the class.

I will fix this.
>>
>>>+{
>>>+    return class_register(&nvmem_class);
>>
>>I thought class was on the way out? Aren't we supposed to use bus types
>>for new stuff?
>Do you remember any conversation on the list about this? I could not
>find it on web.
>
>on the other hand, nvmem is not really a bus, making it a bus type
>sounds incorrect to me.
>
I found this post on the cpu class that Sudeep tried to introduce[1].
And there's this post from Kay that alludes to a unification of busses
and classes[2]. And some other post where Kay says class is dead [3].
Thanks for the links,
Yep, looks like Class is dead, I will change the code to use bus type instead.


[1]https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/21/191
[2]https://lwn.net/Articles/471821/
[3]https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/11/17
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