[PATCH] Platform bus support

[Pozsár Balázs]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:03:42AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:17 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > That did the trick, thanks. I can now see a PS/2 Mouse and keyboard on
> > my laptop, one serial port, and one vesafb device.
> > 
> > Why is vesafb a platform device? Does it belong here?
> > 
> > I'll connect up my desktop machine, and patch that (as it has a "real"
> > floppy drive) and test it on that too today.
> > 
> > David, have you any concerns about the patches?
> 
> Not really apart from that the kernel should be fixed so it doesn't
> export ports that are not there :-) - potentially we need to check if
> there is a real port much like we check if there is a real floppy drive
> in the end of /dev/fd0. I'd say go ahead and commit the stuff for now.

On my machine with kernel 2.6.14-rc2 the floppy module does not load 
(and thus no /dev/fd* devices are created) if there is no floppy.


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