Re: "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model?

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jan 07 2004 - 12:34:54 EST


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.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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