From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: PowerPC dev list <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Subject: Re: Fix Firmware class name collision
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:52:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4755E835.6070704@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4755E6AC.9020808@freescale.com>
Timur Tabi wrote:
>
> In other words, the only thing you get is the first letter of the device name.
> You used to get the whole name. The physical address obviously isn't very helpful.
The physical address certainly is useful when you have more than one
device of the same name.
> Now, there are two solutions:
>
> 1) Change the PowerPC device names from physical_address.device_name to
> device_name.physical_address (so that e0102400.ucc becomes ucc.e0102400)
So then you'd get "firmware-ucc.e01024". What if there's another ucc at
e0102480? For devices with longer names, you'd have even less
precision in the address.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 23:45 Fix Firmware class name collision Timur Tabi
2007-12-04 23:52 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-12-05 1:28 ` Timur Tabi
2007-12-14 22:40 ` Greg KH
2007-12-14 22:46 ` Timur Tabi
2007-12-15 6:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-15 6:39 ` Greg KH
2007-12-15 15:46 ` Kay Sievers
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