Re: [PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device number

From: Russell King (rmk+lkml_at_arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: 03/25/05

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To: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

    On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:56:03PM +0200, Paul Mundt wrote:
    > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:25:08PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
    > > Eh? How do you end up with "/sys/devices/platform/foobar0.0" for the
    > > former case? It has an ID of "-1", and not zero. Your idea doesn't
    > > make any sense.
    > >
    > Yes, I missed the -1 part, so Kyle is correct.
    >
    > It would be trivial to treat them both as foobar0 and have the
    > registration succeed for whoever gets it first, but I could see that this
    > would be problematic in the serial8250 case. On the other hand, this is
    > then serial8250's problem.

    Thank you for ignoring the other case of i82385 to justify your point
    of view of it being just a single driver problem.

    Maybe you can work out a patch to fix up this mess? 

    -- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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