[patch] powerpc: add scanning of ebc bus to of_platform

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Dec 11 17:56:08 EST 2006


On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 13:25 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann writes:
> 
> > But the platform doesn't need how to drive them, the device driver
> > needs to. All the platform needs to know is the fact that it can
> > deal with SOC devices that are automatically probed.
> > 
> > I'd much prefer to have the list in the same file that drives the
> > devices in the first place. It's probably also good to register
> > them as MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(), for documentation purposes, even
> > if the driver can't be built as a module yet.
> 
> So is that an ack or a nack for the patch?  Sounds like a nack to me,
> but I'm not sure. :)

Put it in for now.

Ben.





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