[PATCH] Platform bus support

[Pierre Ossman]

Richard Hughes wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 16:40 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
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>>Richard Hughes wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 15:45 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
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>>>>Richard Hughes wrote:
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>>>>>Could you resync against cvs HEAD please:
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>>>Brilliant thanks.
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>>>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.
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>>>I've attached my lshal before and after your patch.
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>>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.
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>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.
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Huh? There should not be anything virtual about serial ports. And they
should most definetly not be under platform and i8250 if they're not
connected to hardware in some form. On my system I only get ttyS[0-3],
so it must be something causing it to create so many ports on your system.

Rgds
Pierre