From: gregkh@linuxfoundation•org (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] of/platform: Move platform devices under /sys/devices/platform
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 08:07:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141104160716.GA1630@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415097920-30014-1-git-send-email-grant.likely@linaro.org>
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:45:20AM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> Currently the devices created by drivers/of/platform.c get created at
> the root of /sys/devices. This goes against the typical pattern for
> sysfs where the top level /sys/devices structure contains categories of
> devices, and the structure of devices is placed below that. To fix this,
> make the code in drivers/of/platform.c follow the drivers/base/platform.c
> behaviour, and use &platform_bus as the default parent for all new
> platform_devices and amba_devices.
>
> This change has been discussed for a long time, but nobody has actually
> acted on it. Userspace code that expects to find devices under a fixed
> /sys/devices/... path will be affected. It isn't /supposed/ to do that,
> but if anyone complains then I'll add a default-off workaround option to
> put them back into the root.
>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro•org>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel•org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-04 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-04 10:45 [PATCH] of/platform: Move platform devices under /sys/devices/platform Grant Likely
2014-11-04 13:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-04 16:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2014-11-18 10:36 ` Andrzej Hajda
2014-11-18 16:10 ` Grant Likely
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