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Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:57:59 +0200
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	"H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:54:15PM +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> > Am 18.08.2016 um 12:47 schrieb Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>:
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> Thereof 4 files, ~260 changes w/o gps demo and documentation/bindings.
> > 
> > So what do you use for the serial devices? platform_device was vetoed
> > for that purpose by Greg.
> 
> device tree?

No.

This patchset from Rob is the way I have been saying it should be done
for years now.  Yes, a "bus" takes up more boilerplate code (blame me
for that), but overall, it makes the drivers simpler, and fits into the
rest of the kernel driver/device model much better.

greg k-h

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