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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: serial8250_init and platform_device
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:50:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050120195058.GA8835@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050120193845.H13242@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:38:45PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> 
> Greg - the name is constructed from "name" + "id num" thusly:
> 
> 	serial8250
> 	serial82500
> 	serial82501
> 	serial82502
> 
> When "name" ends in a number, it gets rather confusing.  Can we have
> an optional delimiter in there when we append the ID number, maybe
> something like a '.' or ':' ?

Sure, that's fine with me.  Someone send me a patch :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-20 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-20  7:14 serial8250_init and platform_device Kumar Gala
2005-01-20 11:43 ` Russell King
2005-01-20 15:23   ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-20 15:44     ` Russell King
2005-01-20 19:06       ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-20 19:38         ` Russell King
2005-01-20 19:50           ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-01-20 20:10             ` Russell King
2005-01-20 20:25               ` Kumar Gala
2005-02-01  8:41               ` Greg KH
2005-01-20 20:26           ` Kumar Gala

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