Subject: Re: Platform device model drawback

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:40:56 -0800

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:34:47PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > You only register the driver once.  The individual devices can be bound
> > to the same driver, right?
> > 
> > > Not registering it in CPM_UART, how the pdev could be obtained?
> > > 
> > > Maybe this is clear, but platform stuff is cumbersome some times...
> > 
> > Then make it cleaner :)
> 
> This is where the confusion is.  We have two instances of device A.  We 
> want instance 1 of device A bound to driver "enet" and instance 2 of 
> device A bound to "serial".

That's different from what was described earlier :)

In this case, you need two different struct devices.

> Today both instances are called "deviceA".  However we can't register two 
> different drivers as "deviceA".

Nor would you want to.

> Not sure if that clarifies the issue any.

A bit.  I think it still sounds messy...

thanks,

greg k-h