Re: Fundamental Design Flaw of the Device Driver Model?

[Jon Smirl]

On 8/22/08, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>    This, however, creates many questions you have to face with:
>
>    1. on what bus shall these sub-devices be?
>       ** this is the reason I choose to use "platform_device", at least they
>       can reside on the platform_bus_type, thus platform_driver can be used
>       for this sub-device

Another option is making your own bus. If I understand your hardware
it effectively has an internal bus.

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Jon Smirl
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