Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:56:05 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: PNP and bus association |
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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.
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