of_platform bus?

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Apr 4 14:14:55 EST 2006


On Apr 3, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Li Yang-r58472 wrote:

> I noticed that there is a new bus type of_platform_bus added.   
> Current ppc embedded systems are using platform_device, and are  
> changing to use OF flat device tree structure.  Does it mean that  
> current drivers need to be switched from platform_bus to  
> of_platform_bus?

At some point we may look at that.  However, since drivers are shared  
between arch/ppc and arch/powerpc we will continue to use  
platform_device.

- k



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