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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PCI / OF linkage in sysfs
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On some platforms, we might have multiple different entries (eg on a PC we
> might have pointers to ACPI data, to PnP data and to EFI data, all at the
> same time. I hope we never will, but maybe there would be reason for it).
> That would argue _against_ a "generic" name like "platform", and for
> something that is actually very much specific to the kind of data it
> points to (eg "of-data" rather than "platform-data").

And there is the possibility in the LinuxBIOS case that you can have
ACPI, EFI, OF and the native LinuxBIOS interfaces all on one box :)

The EFI side is the only piece we are in wait and see mode for at
the moment.

So it is seriously possible you get everything simultaneously.

Eric

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