Re: [PATCH 0/4] DT platform device name collision fixes

[Frank Rowand <frowand.list-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 5/7/2014 3:52 PM, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 5/7/2014 2:48 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> From: Rob Herring <robh-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
>>
>> This series fixes the device naming collisions that can occur with 
>> nultiple devices having the same name and non-translatable unit 
>> addresses. This issue was raised in this thread[1]. I intend to merge 
>> this regardless of whether or not some hierarchy in sysfs is created. 
>> That is really a separate issue independent of these fixes.
>>
>> I found and fix a couple of other issues in the process of testing the 
>> fix.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/23/312
>>
>> Rob Herring (4):
>>   of/selftest: add testcase for nodes with same name and address
>>   of/platform: return error on of_platform_device_create_pdata failure
>>   of/platform: fix device naming for non-translatable addresses
>>   of: kill off of_can_translate_address
> 
> My opinion is that this approach is not a good approach to solving the
> problem.  It is papering over a symptom, instead of dealing with the
> root cause.
> 
> But despite my opinion, you can add to patches 2-4 (I did not test
> the self-test added in patch 1):
> 
>    Tested-by: frowand.list-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <frank.rowand-/MT0OVThwyLZJqsBc5GL+g@public.gmane.org>
> 
> The patches resolve the name conflict originally reported for the
> qcomm PMIC, tested on 3.15-rc1, with a bunch of out of tree
> patches.

And you can add to the 4 patches:

  Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand-/MT0OVThwyLZJqsBc5GL+g@public.gmane.org>

-Frank

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