Re: "Miscellaneous" bus for the driver model?

[Jeff Garzik]

Russell King wrote:
> 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.


It's already in :)

	Jeff



ChangeSet@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 2003-12-29 21:54:21-08:00, akpm@xxxxxxxx
  [PATCH] Rename legacy_bus to platform_bus

  From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>

  I've seen this patch floating around.  Not sure the origin, but it's
  surfaced on lkml and also when I was poking around handhelds.org CVS for
  iPAQ patches:  on non-PCs, particularly system-on-chip devices but not
  just there, you have a custom "platform bus" that is the root of pretty
  much all other devices and buses.

  It's something I wanted to make sure people didn't forget; to make sure
  the legacy_bus didn't get "legacied out of existence."  ;-)


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