On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 12:37:25PM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > > I don't like this at all, sorry. > > > > Don't shoot the messenger please... > > This is all about fixing a crash without messing too many things. I understand, it's not your fault at all. > > And I was waiting for the day when people started to finally remove > > platform devices from the system, I always thought it would never work > > properly. Good luck with this, I think you have a lot of work ahead of > > yourself... > > > > I know. > > Platform device removal is the wild-wild west... > > If I had to make a wish, would be to kill platform_device completely and > integrate all it's functionality in the the vanilla device. YES!!!! > What exactly is a platform device anyway? Originally it was a "something that wasn't connected to a bus, but just had memory-mapped i/o." Like the PS2 keyboard controller. Embedded systems got ahold of this and went to town, and made everything a platform device because they could, and no one was paying attention. Then OF came along and used it as well, and you know the rest... I think we need to get the ACPI and OF people, and me, in a room together at the kernel summit and not let us out until we have this all worked out. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
