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Subject: Re: Strange location and name for platform  devices when
 device-tree is used.
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 08:58 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Just loop through all the platform devices before registering it to
> determine if you need to do this, the platform code can do this just
> fine.  If you try to register a duplicate name with the driver core,
> odds are it will complain loudly, so don't do that.

But that loop + registration is racy ... oh well, we might do something
better with Neil's idea of labels instead.

Ben.