Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:09:08 -0700 | From | Stephen Boyd <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] drivers: base: add new class "cpu" to group cpu devices |
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On 07/25/14 09:44, Sudeep Holla wrote: > From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> > > This patch creates a new class called "cpu" and assigns it to all the > cpu devices. This helps in grouping all the cpu devices and associated > child devices under the same class. > > This patch also: > 1. modifies the get_parent_device to return the legacy path > (/sys/devices/system/cpu/..) for the cpu class devices to support > existing sysfs ABI > 2. avoids creating link in the class directory pointing to the device as > there would be per-cpu instance of these devices with the same name > 3. makes sure subsystem symlink continues pointing to cpu bus instead of > cpu class for cpu devices > > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Why can't we make a 'cache' bus that the cache devices hang off of? It doesn't make sense to me why we would want to have cache devices living on the cpu bus.
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