From: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
To: Joachim Fenkes <FENKES@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Q Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>,
Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <pmac@au1.ibm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
LinuxPPC-Dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.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: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:36:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D72A4E.6060106@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF9D1ED44F.896DCCC5-ONC1257347.0044D256-C1257347.004CFB07@de.ibm.com>
> There are currently two GX devices, eHCA and eHEA, which both reside
> beneath the root node - this is required by architecture for those
> devices. Unless they invent a device called
> "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", devices in the root note will have a
> full_name of less than 31 chars. Even in that case, the truncation occurs
> at the beginning, so the @xxx part that makes the nodes unique will stay
> in place.
>
OK, didn't realize it had to be beneath the root node, and that the
truncation truncated the front and not the back. I would have done it
differently, but this should work.
Acked-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-30 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ 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 18:12 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-08-29 18:33 ` jschopp
2007-08-30 14:00 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-30 17:56 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-08-30 20:36 ` Joel Schopp [this message]
2007-08-30 21:28 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-31 8:57 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-30 18:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-08-31 14:34 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-08-31 17:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-08-31 17:46 ` Joachim Fenkes
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