On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 02:55:55PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2011, Kenneth Heitke wrote: > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(slim_add_device); > I don't think this should be exported: AFAICT, the set of slim_devices > is a property of the platform, so I don't see how any other device driver > would add another device. The platform may be comprised of multiple hardwaare modules with functionality on daughtercards which can be probed at runtime. You may also find someone constructing a PCI card or something with a slimbus controller on it at some point. > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(slim_register_board_info); > We are trying to gradually convert platforms that have hardcoded device > lists and cannot probe devices by looking at the hardware over to using > device tree files that list all the devices. > I think that this would work well for slimbus and should be done > right from the start. This means however that you should not > register a "board_info" but instead change the slim_register_controller > function so that it adds all devices listed as children of the > controller in the device tree. It seems a bit extreme to prevent anyone implementing a subsystem for their platform until they've converted it into device tree. Though with slimbus it should be at least somewhat probeable IIRC? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
