Re: "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model?

From: Russell King (rmk+lkml_at_arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: 01/07/04

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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>

    On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:33:45AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
    > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:00:16AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
    > > Would it make sense for the driver model core to add a "miscellaneous" or
    > > "other" bus, intended for devices or drivers that are one-of-a-kind or
    > > otherwise non-standard? Kind of similar to the platform bus but meant
    > > for new things, not part of a legacy or other system/architecture-specific
    > > base?
    >
    > That's what the "legacy" bus is for. There's a patch floating around
    > that renames that bus to "platform" to remove any connotation that
    > "legacy" might occur.

    Can we get this patch merged ASAP please? It should really have gone
    in before 2.6 so we don't have this change during a stable kernel series. 

    -- 
Russell King
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