Re: what's a platform device?

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

> > > This makes sense, but you seem to be talking about hierarchy more  
> > > the
> > > functionality.  I agree in your description of hierarchy.
> > >
> > > I was looking at it from a functional point of view, maybe more from
> > > the device view then from the bus.  I need a struct device type that
> > > contains resources, a name, an id.  I'll do matching based on name.
> > >  From a functional point of view platform does all this.
> > >
> > > Based on your description would you say that a platform_device's
> > > parent device should always be platform_bus? [I'm getting at the  
> > > fact
> > > that we allow pdev->dev.parent to be set by the caller of
> > > platform_device_add].
> > >
> > > Hmm, as I think about this further, I think that its more  
> > > coincidence
> > > that the functionality for the "kumar" bus is equivalent to that of
> > > the "platform" bus.
> >
> > What about a new bus_type that uses all the sematics of the  
> > platform_bus.
> > Doing someting like the following which would allow the caller to  
> > specify
> > their own bus_type.
> >
> > I'm just trying to avoid duplicating alot of code that already  
> > exists in
> > base/platform.c
>
> I'm ok with this patch, Russell?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114072367307531&w=2

Russell, comments?

- kumar
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