Re: [RFC] driver-core: Remove dummy 'platform_bus'

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The "platform_bus" (note: not platform_bus_type) only exists as an empty
> directory to put platform devices into. However, it really doesn't make
> sense to segregate all the platform devices into a sub directory when
> typically they are memory mapped devices that doen't go through any
> particular bus. Particularly on embedded type platforms the platform_bus
> directory doesn't add anything.
>
> However, this will probably just end up breaking some userspace that
> depends on the /sys/devices/platform/ path to be present (no matter how
> much we protest that userspace must not depend on paths in sysfs). So
> while I'm seriously proposing this change, it may just be unacceptable
> ABI breakage

An old thread, but was there ever a conclusion to this? We now have a
mixture of using platform_bus as the parent or not on various ARM
platforms.

Rob
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