linux-kernel - Re: Strange location and name for platform devices when device-tree is used.

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Message-ID: <20131104080923.1ea15ebc@notabene.brown>
Date:	Mon, 4 Nov 2013 08:09:23 +1100
From:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange location and name for platform  devices when
 device-tree is used.

On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:58:24 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:


> So go blame them for this, not me, remember, I'm the one who _hates_
> platform devices and wish they had never been created...

Have you ever written up why you hate them?  I did a bit of googling and
couldn't find anything obvious.

Is it the whole concept, or the particular details that you don't like?

(I find the concept seems to make perfect sense, though there are a lot of
details that I don't know).

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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