[PATCH] Platform bus support

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 07:57:59 PDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 16:40 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 15:45 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Richard Hughes wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Could you resync against cvs HEAD please:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >
> >Brilliant thanks.
> >
> >I see my PS2 devices, and the vesa device (should we see this?) but I
> >also see about 30 new devices that are my ttyS* devices - I'm sure these
> >shouldn't be showing up.
> >
> >I've attached my lshal before and after your patch.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> Since the kernel decides to export these devices then I would say that
> it's correct for hal to pick them up. If we cannot determine if they're
> actually there or not then we'll just have to trust the kernel.

But they are not devices! They are just virtual tty's. You will need to
filter these in HAL so they do not add a new device for each one.

Richard.




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