Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:49:54 +0100 | From | Pierre Ossman <> | Subject | Re: PNP and bus association |
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Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> Pierre Ossman wrote: > >> I recently tried out adding PNP support to my driver to remove the >> hassle of finding the correct parameters for it. This, however, >> causes it to show up under the pnp bus, where as it previously was >> located under the platform bus. >> >> Is the idea that PNP devices should only reside on the PNP bus or is >> there some magic available to get the device to appear on several >> buses? It's a bit of a hassle to search in two different places in >> sysfs depending on if PNP is used or not. >> >> Also, the PNP bus doesn't really say that much about where the device >> is physically connected. The other bus types usually give a hint >> about this. > > > Not to take away from your question, but: > Is there "the PNP bus"? I've seen an ISA bus that (sort of) > supports PNP, PCI PNP, NuBus PNP, USB PNP, IEEE 1394 PNP, etc. > It's not a physical bus but it is a bus as far as the kernel is concerned. And that's really my problem. I want it to support PNP, but also to associate with the physical bus it's connected to.
Rgds Pierre
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