On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 00:41 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 07:37:54PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > We should really have a subsystem for this too - the general idea idea > > > of identifying boards, fit options and so on by looking at things like > > > GPIOs or numbers in flash is really common. > > > Would it then be a bus following the pattern we chiseled out for > > the soc bus? (Greg, Lee & Arnd architectured this.) > > I'd expect it to be a bus, yes. It seems to me the platform bus already provides everything we need. We can just make a platform driver, say platform-id-gpio.c which can get it's platform data from OF or ACPI (_PRP proposal from kernel summit last week for example). Why would a separate bus type need to be defined? -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel -- 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
