Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:05:46 +0100 | From | Srinivas Kandagatla <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 03/11] nvmem: Add a simple NVMEM framework for nvmem providers |
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On 24/06/15 01:24, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Can you assign the attributes to the device_type in the nvmem::struct > device? I don't see why these attributes need to be part of the class. > I will fix this. >>> >> >>>> >>>+{ >>>> >>>+ return class_register(&nvmem_class); >>> >> >>> >>I thought class was on the way out? Aren't we supposed to use bus types >>> >>for new stuff? >> >Do you remember any conversation on the list about this? I could not >> >find it on web. >> > >> >on the other hand, nvmem is not really a bus, making it a bus type >> >sounds incorrect to me. >> > > I found this post on the cpu class that Sudeep tried to introduce[1]. > And there's this post from Kay that alludes to a unification of busses > and classes[2]. And some other post where Kay says class is dead [3]. Thanks for the links, Yep, looks like Class is dead, I will change the code to use bus type instead.
> > [1]https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/21/191 > [2]https://lwn.net/Articles/471821/ > [3]https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/11/17 --srini
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