Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2017 09:25:13 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 14/14] nubus: Add support for the driver model |
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 01:20:02AM -0500, Finn Thain wrote: > This patch brings basic support for the Linux Driver Model to the > NuBus subsystem. > > For flexibility, the matching of boards with drivers is left up to the > drivers. This is also the approach taken by NetBSD. A board may have > many functions, and drivers may have to consider many functional > resources and board resources in order to match a device. > > This implementation does not bind drivers to resources (nor does it bind > many drivers to the same board). Apple's NuBus declaration ROM design > is flexible enough to allow that, but I don't see a need to support it > as we don't use the "slot zero" resources (in the main logic board ROM). > > Eliminate the global nubus_boards linked list by rewriting the procfs > board iterator around bus_for_each_dev(). Hence the nubus device refcount > can be used to determine the lifespan of board objects. > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Tested-by: Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com> > Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Nice job:
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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