[PATCH] Platform bus support

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 03:10:44 PDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 10:42 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> 
> >
> >Why is vesafb a platform device? Does it belong here?
> >  
> >
> 
> Apparently. The kernel boys decided to register it as a platform device,
> so we shouldn't move it about. 

Sure.

> I'm not familiar with how the kernel
> framebuffer drivers work, but I suppose there's a reason it is not
> associated directly with the graphics card.

Okay, thanks for the explanation.

> >Thanks for your help Pierre,
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> No problem. Now there's only my two documentation patches that need some
> attention. ;)

Always the last bit to be written for me too :-)

Richard.



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