From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Joachim Fenkes <FENKES@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Q Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <pmac@au1.ibm.com>,
Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.23] ibmebus: Prevent bus_id collisions
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:08:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708311908.05255.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFBB1BA4B6.29175A76-ONC1257348.004DBCB3-C1257348.0050161C@de.ibm.com>
On Friday 31 August 2007, Joachim Fenkes wrote:
> > The whole logic of dynamically adding and removing device is rather
> bogus,
> > and it prevents autoloading of device drivers. of_platform_make_bus_id
> > is the function that is responsible for creating unique names over
> there.
>
> The plaintiff makes a valid point. How about a staging approach: We put
> the patch as it is now into 2.6.23 so the problem is fixed, and I'll post
> a "nice" version with autoloading support and a generic of_make_bus_id
> function for 2.6.24. Agree?
Ok, sounds fair. Can you make sure that the resulting bus_id is the same
for the final version then?
Arnd <><
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Joachim Fenkes <FENKES@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Paul Mackerras <pmac@au1.ibm.com>,
Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com>,
Thomas Q Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.23] ibmebus: Prevent bus_id collisions
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:08:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708311908.05255.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFBB1BA4B6.29175A76-ONC1257348.004DBCB3-C1257348.0050161C@de.ibm.com>
On Friday 31 August 2007, Joachim Fenkes wrote:
> > The whole logic of dynamically adding and removing device is rather
> bogus,
> > and it prevents autoloading of device drivers. of_platform_make_bus_id
> > is the function that is responsible for creating unique names over
> there.
>
> The plaintiff makes a valid point. How about a staging approach: We put
> the patch as it is now into 2.6.23 so the problem is fixed, and I'll post
> a "nice" version with autoloading support and a generic of_make_bus_id
> function for 2.6.24. Agree?
Ok, sounds fair. Can you make sure that the resulting bus_id is the same
for the final version then?
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-29 16:15 [PATCH 2.6.23] ibmebus: Prevent bus_id collisions Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-29 16:15 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-29 18:12 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-08-29 18:12 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-08-29 18:33 ` jschopp
2007-08-29 18:33 ` jschopp
2007-08-30 14:00 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-30 14:00 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-30 17:56 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-08-30 17:56 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-08-30 20:36 ` Joel Schopp
2007-08-30 20:36 ` Joel Schopp
2007-08-30 21:28 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-30 21:28 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-31 8:57 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-31 8:57 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-30 18:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-08-30 18:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-08-31 14:34 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-31 14:34 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-31 17:08 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-08-31 17:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-08-31 17:46 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-31 17:46 ` Joachim Fenkes
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