Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Nov 2014 08:07:16 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] of/platform: Move platform devices under /sys/devices/platform |
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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>
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