Re: PATCH: rename legacy bus to platform bus

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <3F97EF84.2060901@xxxxxx>
By author:    Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks@xxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Many of us, especially in the embedded computing world, think that 
> "legacy bus" is a misnomer.  It's not going away.  What do root PCI 
> buses connect to?  At the root of the device tree there is a bus.  This 
> patch changes the name from legacy bus to platform bus.  I'm hoping this 
> change can be made even this late in the development cycle.  It is a 
> pretty small patch but I think that naming is very important.
> 

>From a PCI terminology perspective, this is misleading.

The root PCI bus connects to a HOST bus.

The LEGACY bus connects to the subtractive decoding device.

In a PC system, LEGACY busses are basically ISA and LPC.

	-hpa
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