[PATCH] Platform bus support

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:57:59PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 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.

Note the "S"! ttyS*'s are not "virtual tty's" these are serial ports.
Modern boxes like my laptop shows only 4 of them, which are perfectly
fine to appear in HAL, I think.

Kay