linux-kernel - Re: Fundamental Design Flaw of the Device Driver Model?

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Message-ID: <9e4733910808220733o7a8904do9dec947dde7d09c0@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:33:30 -0400
From:	"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@...il.com>
To:	"Eric Miao" <eric.y.miao@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fundamental Design Flaw of the Device Driver Model?

On 8/22/08, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com> wrote:
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>    This, however, creates many questions you have to face with:
>
>    1. on what bus shall these sub-devices be?
>       ** this is the reason I choose to use "platform_device", at least they
>       can reside on the platform_bus_type, thus platform_driver can be used
>       for this sub-device

Another option is making your own bus. If I understand your hardware
it effectively has an internal bus.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@...il.com
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