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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Handle multiple button devices with the same name
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:56:59 -0400 (EDT)
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> It's valid for ACPI to have multiple devices with the same name. It's not
> valid for us to create multiple identical directories in /proc. Let's
> put some effort into uniqueness.

I chose the patch that deletes this code instead.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center