On Fri, 07 Sep 2007, David Brownell wrote:
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> For that matter, a *driver* should never create its own device node(s)
> in the first place.  Device creation belongs elsewhere, like as part of
> platform setup or, for busses with integral enumeration support like
> PCI or USB, bus glue.  Linux is moving away from that legacy model.

This assumes that we have a better bus than "platform" to dump drivers like
thinkpad-acpi, hdaps, and a host of other host-specific stuff.

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> I realize that may be more easily said than done in some cases,
> like i8042 on non-PNP systems.

Yes, and there is a LOT of non-PNP stuff involved, since platform became the
dumping ground for host-specific devices (as opposed to platform-specific
devices).

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  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
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