On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 09:28:30AM +0200, Corentin Chary wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Seth Forshee > <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Changes toshiba_acpi to register an acpi driver and eliminates the > > platform device it was using. > > Why to you want to remove the platform device ? If you want to create > a sysfs interface later, you'll probably need it. Most of the platform > driver I know only use the acpi_device to send proc/netlink events and > the platform_device is used everywhere else. (And anyway, it's an x86 > *platform* driver, not a pure acpi driver). There's no hard requirement for a platform device, and given that it's purely using ACPI methods it arguably *is* a pure ACPI driver - Toshiba could use the same interface on an ARM device, if they were feeling excessively enthusiastic. But I've no strong feelings either way. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
