drivers/base: add bus for System-on-Chip devices
authorLee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:22:22 +0000 (11:22 -0800)
committerGrazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:23:52 +0000 (03:23 +0300)
commit6cc23da27042866776b3e096b607b3494944d61b
treed2490da6e8a8e7bb12f8331beac63931008bb0da
parent8647cba74abcffc731bc8c9a8ed2adf0c9b13af6
drivers/base: add bus for System-on-Chip devices

Traditionally, any System-on-Chip based platform creates a flat list
of platform_devices directly under /sys/devices/platform.

In order to give these some better structure, this introduces a new
bus type for soc_devices that are registered with the new
soc_device_register() function.  All devices that are on the same
chip should then be registered as child devices of the soc device.

The soc bus also exports a few standardised device attributes which
allow user space to query the specific type of soc.

Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Conflicts:

drivers/base/Kconfig
drivers/base/Kconfig
drivers/base/Makefile
drivers/base/soc.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/sys_soc.h [new file with mode: 0644]