Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Kevin, > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Kevin Hilman wrote: > >> From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxx> >> >> In order to help differentiate omap_devices from normal >> platform_devices, make them all a parent of a new common parent >> device. >> >> Then, in order to determine if a platform_device is also an >> omap_device, checking the parent is all that is needed. >> >> Users of this feature are the runtime PM core for OMAP, where we need >> to know if a device being passed in is an omap_device or not in order >> to know whether to call the omap_device API with it. >> >> In addition, all omap_devices will now show up under /sys/devices/omap >> instead of /sys/devices/platform >> >> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxx> > > At least with the current state of the Linux kernel codebase, I think it > would be better to have an omap_bus/omap_bus_type. But as we've > discussed, that is a lot of work, and this solution seems to solve the > immediate problem -- how to determine if a device is really an omap_device > -- while being minimally invasive to the rest of the kernel code and > device model. So, looks good to me for now, > > Acked-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx> > > and feel free to merge this and patch 1/2 through your tree... > OK, will do. Thanks, Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
