On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: > Drasko Draskovic wrote: > >Hi all. > >Can somebody tell me what is exactly struct platform_device for. I > >have to write driver for some device that sits on AMBA bus, and I do > >not know if I should declare it a n amb_device or plaform_device. > > > ICBW, but its closest to a generic-bus, similar to pci, etc, > but without support for the features those other busses support. > > Its not a 'virtual-class', ie it is directly usable. > > Theres also an isa_device patch, on LKML. No, that's in the kernel tree now. > Im not quite sure what it does better than platform_device, > but I'd wager that the differences between them would highlight > some reasons to use/not-use platform_device. It handles isa devices :) thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
