Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 18 2016 - 06:58:38 EST


On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:54:15PM +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> > Am 18.08.2016 um 12:47 schrieb Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thereof 4 files, ~260 changes w/o gps demo and documentation/bindings.
> >
> > So what do you use for the serial devices? platform_device was vetoed
> > for that purpose by Greg.
>
> device tree?

No.

This patchset from Rob is the way I have been saying it should be done
for years now. Yes, a "bus" takes up more boilerplate code (blame me
for that), but overall, it makes the drivers simpler, and fits into the
rest of the kernel driver/device model much better.

greg k-h