[PATCH] Platform bus support

[Pierre Ossman]

Pierre Ossman wrote:
> David Zeuthen wrote:
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>>Pierre Ossman wrote:
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>>>So which of the three would be preferred?
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>>Actually I think I prefer the solution where we just require a 2.6.13
>>kernel for making hal understand arcane things like legacy x86 floppy
>>drives. How does that sound?
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> I have no problem with that. But we still need some code to determine
> that it's a floppy and not some other block device. The three
> suggestions I made was for that part. Or did you have another way in mind?
> 

This thread seems to have died off so I though I'd get it going again by
presenting a patch.

This uses the platform id string to determine that the device is a
floppy. Shouldn't be a risk of this changing too often since this is how
the device is identified internally in the kernel. Will also allow it to
be independent of how udev decides to name the device node.

Rgds
Pierre