On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:37:13PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 06.08.2013 12:14, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > > >> 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. > > MFD uses platform devices too. Ugh, I've been avoiding looking at mfd for a long time now, and really don't want to start now... -- 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
